Ridge
[rɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane.
(noun.) a long narrow natural elevation or striation.
(noun.) a long narrow range of hills.
(noun.) a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean.
(noun.) any long raised strip.
(verb.) form into a ridge.
(verb.) spade into alternate ridges and troughs; 'ridge the soil'.
(verb.) throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides; 'He ridged his corn'.
(verb.) plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip.
(verb.) extend in ridges; 'The land ridges towards the South'.
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Definition
(n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest.
(n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
(n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.
(n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.
(n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
(v. t.) To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
(v. t.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
(v. t.) To wrinkle.
Typist: Silvia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Extended elevation.
Typist: Norton
Definition
n. the back or top of the back: anything like a back as a long range of hills: an extended protuberance: a crest: the earth thrown up by the plough between the furrows a breadth of ground running the whole length of the field divided from those on either side by broad open furrows helping to guide the sowers and reapers and effecting drainage in wet soils: the upper horizontal timber of a roof: the highest portion of a glacis.—v.t. to form into ridges: to wrinkle.—ns. Ridge′-band that part of the harness of a cart which goes over the saddle; Ridge′-bone the spine.—adj. Ridged having ridges on a surface: ridgy.—ns. Ridge′-fill′et a fillet between two flutes of a column; Ridge′-harr′ow a harrow made to lap upon the sides of a ridge over which it passes; Ridge′-plough a plough with a double mould-board; Ridge′-pole the timber forming the ridge of a roof; Ridge′-rope the central rope of an awning.—adj. Ridg′y having ridges.
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Examples
- The problem now was to get to the main ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- West Virginia was in our hands; and that part of old Virginia north of the Rapidan and east of the Blue Ridge we also held. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He would perhaps climb the ridge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He said the Austrians had a great amount of artillery in the woods along Ternova ridge beyond and above us, and shelled the roads badly at night. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Confederates were strongly intrenched on the crest of the ridge in front of us, and had a second line half-way down and another at the base. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His reaching Bragg's flank and extending across it was to be the signal for Thomas's assault of the ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Sherman carried the end of Missionary Ridge, and his right is now at the tunnel, and his left at Chickamauga Creek. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Along the ridge ran a faint foot-track, which the lady followed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Sheridan on the extreme right was already in pursuit of the enemy east of the ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Its most familiar form is in a boxlike arrangement, divided longitudinally by a narrow ridge of two compartments, one of which is roughly some three times larger than the other. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Shirley said she liked the green sweep of the common turf, and, better still, the heath on its ridges, for the heath reminded her of moors. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Our line was generally along the crest of ridges. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The ridges upon which Vicksburg is built, and those back to the Big Black, are composed of a deep yellow clay of great tenacity. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In this there are no steps, it being composed of hardwood cleats moving in longitudinal ridges and grooves, there being a handrail on either side moving at the same speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Ridges of faces are thrown to this side and to that, and the ploughs go steadily onward. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The ridges thrown to this side and to that, now crumble in and close behind the last plough as it passes on, for all are following to the Guillotine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The crystallized snow was in his eyelashes, in his hair, lying in ridges on his dress. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There were the two ridges, and there were the tanks ahead and there were his two good brigades ready to leave the woods and here came the planes now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The edges of the lower mandible are crossed by numerous fine ridges, which project very little. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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