ridge

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US /ˈrɪdʒ/ UK /ɹɪd͡ʒ/
verb noun Freq #6616

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    spade into alternate ridges and troughs

    ridge the soil

  2. 2
    verb

    throw soil toward a crop row from both sides

    I ridged my corn.

  3. 3
    verb

    extend in ridges

    The land ridges towards the South

  4. 4
    noun

    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[…]

  5. 5
    noun

    Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

    The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.

  6. 6
    noun

    The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.

    mountain ridge

  7. 7
    noun

    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. 8
    noun

    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

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”).

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Word family
Derived forms enridgegreenridgeheathridgeinterridgelockridgemicroridgenanoridgeoakridgepineridgeredridgeridge-runnerridgeback
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