Possible Clues:

• End or lean against, say a building
• Touch; be next to
• Join up member of brass
• Neighbour a source of ridicule for gossip
• Sort of although it comes next
• Be on the verge of, when there's an objection
• Neighbour concerned with getting circular letter out
• Go to the edge of
• It comes next, although at last it may be touching
• An objection from neighbour