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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Ridge

Ridge (rĭj), n.

noun

(rĭj), n. [A-S. hrycg, hricg, hricc, hrycce, back, pediment; Icel. hryggr, Sw. rygg, Dan. ryg, O. H. Ger. hrukki, M. H. Ger. rucke, rugge, D. rug, L. Ger. rugge, rügge, N. H. Ger. rücken, allied to Gr. ῥάχις, the back, a ridge. Cf. Rig.]

Sense 1. The back, or top of the back. Hudibras.

Sense 2. A long or continued range of hills or mountains; or the upper part of such a range; a steep elevation, eminence, or protuberance. “The frozen ridges of the Alps.” Shak.

Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct. Milton.

Sense 3. A long, rising land, or a strip of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows. Mortimer.

Sense 4. (Arch.) The top or upper angle of the roof of a building; the intersection of two surfaces forming a salient angle.

Sense 5. (Fort.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way. Stocqueler.

Ridge, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. RIDGED; p. pr. & vb. n. RIDGING.] 1. To form a ridge of; to make into a ridge or ridges. Bristles ranged like those that ridge the back Of chafed wild boar. Milton. 2. (Agric.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land. 3. To wrinkle. Cooper.