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Ridge
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- 1 A village in Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. countable, uncountable
- 2 A toponymic surname from Middle English, named after the natural feature. countable, uncountable
- 3 A male given name transferred from the surname. countable, uncountable
- 1 The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
"He thought it was no time to ſtay, / And let the Night too ſteal away, / But in a trice advanced the Knight, / Upon the Bare Ridge, Bolt upright, / And groping out for Ralpho’s Jade, / He found the Saddle too was ſtraid[…]"
- 2 a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters wordnet
- 3 Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
"The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows."
- 4 any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane wordnet
- 5 The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
"mountain ridge"
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- 6 a long narrow natural elevation or striation wordnet
- 7 The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
"Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky."
- 8 a long narrow range of hills wordnet
- 9 The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
"the British Guards lie down behind a ridge to avoid the shot and shell from the opposite heights"
- 10 a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean wordnet
- 11 A chain of mountains.
"[…]Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, / And meete him, were I tide to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, / Or any other ground inhabitable, / Where euer Engliſhman durſt ſet his foote."
- 12 any long raised strip wordnet
- 13 A chain of hills.
- 14 A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
- 15 An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
- 1 To form into a ridge. transitive
- 2 form into a ridge wordnet
- 3 To extend in ridges. intransitive
- 4 spade into alternate ridges and troughs wordnet
- 5 throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides wordnet
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- 6 plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip wordnet
- 7 extend in ridges wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).
From ridge. Originating from Middle English.
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