The process, craft, or activity of creating, forming, sharpening, or defining edges and boundaries.
From Old English 'ecg' (edge) + '-making' (the act of creation). This gerund form describes the activity itself rather than the person or tool performing it.
The oldest edgemaking technology—flint knapping to create sharp stone tools—required such precise understanding of materials that anthropologists consider it proof of advanced cognitive thinking.
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