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Verge.

The spindle or arbor of a watch-balance. The term is commonly applied to that of the old vertical movement, whose balance-arbor has two pallets, which alternately engage with teeth on the opposite sides of a crown-wheel, whose axis is at right angles to that of the verge. See vertical escape-ment.

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