The edge or outskirts of a wood, town, etc. Chiefly with modifier. Also in plural in same sense. Obsolete.

In extended use. Usually in plural, with of. The outlying part of any place, often detached from the main portion; the confines. Also figurative.

plural. Boundaries, bounds, frontiers, borders; the bordering or bounding regions, borderlands.

The border, rim, outer portion, extremity, or tail-end of anything. Also technical (see later quots.) and figurative.

In plural. The outskirts or surroundings of any place; the environs, the borders.

Chiefly with of. An outer border or fringe; an area on the outer edge, esp. of a town, city, district, etc. Now usually in plural. Also figurative.

transferred. A marginal tract, border, edge.

A border, edge, edging, or margin.