Ledge
[ledʒ] or [lɛdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water.
Checked by Beth--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
(n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
(n.) A layer or stratum.
(n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
(n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
Editor: Whitney
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Shelf.[2]. Ridge of rocks.
Typist: Susan
Definition
n. a shelf on which articles may be laid: that which resembles such a shelf: a ridge or shelf of rocks: a layer: a small moulding: a lode in mining.—adj. Ledg′y abounding in ledges.
Editor: Vicky
Examples
- With an area beneath, it was no mean feat to reach that window ledge and open that window. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Trenor's eye had the haggard look of the sleep-walker waked on a deathly ledge. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- On the ledge at the side, were an empty laudanum-bottle and a tortoise-shell handled penknife--soiled, but not with ink. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We have gone through several rounds of purgatory since you left, and I have lately got on to a worse ledge of it than ever. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But I had no time to think of the danger, for another stone sang past me as I hung by my hands from the edge of the ledge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When we were in Switzerland he followed us with Moriarty, and it was undoubtedly he who gave me that evil five minutes on the Reichenbach ledge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I don't think I have had the pleasure of seeing you since you favoured me with those attentions as I lay on the ledge above the Reichenbach Fall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- When in position and ready for work a few moments will suffice to bore the holes, apply the explosive and blast the ledge. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is a pond about one hundred feet square and four feet deep, with a stream of water trickling into it from under an overhanging ledge of rocks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The cleaning away of submarine ledges in harbours, such as the great work at Hell Gate in the harbour of New York, has thus been effected. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The immense veins of magnetic ore lie close to the surface and are mined or quarried by working along a series of benches or ledges. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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