ridge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: ridges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rig
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: ridges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ridging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ridged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ridged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rig
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
pos: noun
examples: 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[…]
gloss: Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
pos: noun
examples: The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.
gloss: The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
pos: noun
examples: mountain ridge
It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick.
gloss: The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
pos: noun
examples: the British Guards lie down behind a ridge to avoid the shot and shell from the opposite heights
gloss: A chain of mountains.
pos: noun
examples: […]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.
gloss: A chain of hills.
pos: noun
gloss: A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
pos: noun
gloss: An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
pos: noun
gloss: To form into a ridge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To extend in ridges.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: Rhodesian Ridgeback
crest
Derived words: Acacia Ridge
Acalanes Ridge
Alpine Ridge
alveolar ridge
apical ectodermal ridge
Bald Ridge
Balmoral Ridge
Barden Ridge
barrier ridge
Basking Ridge
Baxters Ridge
beach ridge
Big Ridge
Blaxlands Ridge
Blue Ridge
bone ridge
Bora Ridge
Botanic Ridge
Bracken Ridge
brow ridge
Bushells Ridge
Butchers Ridge
Carters Ridge
Cato Ridge
Cedar Ridge
combing ridge
enridge
Forest Ridge
Gap Ridge
Gilletts Ridge
Glen Ridge
Grand Ridge
Greenridge
Heathridge
interridge
Kelly Ridge
Kellyville Ridge
Lightning Ridge
Limestone Ridges
Lockridge
Main Ridge
Maple Ridge
McLeans Ridges
microridge
Middle Ridge
mid-oceanic ridge
mid-ocean ridge
Mission Ridge
nanoridge
Oak Ridge
Oakridge
oblique ridge
orbital ridge
Park Ridge
Park Ridge South
Peats Ridge
Pineridge
Pine Ridge
Pliocene Ridge
Porcupine Ridge
Postmans Ridge
Pound Ridge
pressure ridge
Redding Ridge
Redridge
Ridge
ridgeback
ridgeband
ridge beam
ridgeboard
ridgebone
ridge course
Ridgefield
ridgehand
ridge harrow
Ridgehaven
ridgehead
Ridgelands
ridgeless
ridgelet
ridgelike
ridgeline
ridgeling
Ridge Manor
ridgepiece
ridgeplate
ridge plough
ridgepole
ridge pole
ridge push
ridge road
ridge rope
ridgerope
ridge-runner
ridgeside
ridge tent
ridge tile
ridgetop
ridge turret
ridge vent
ridgewalking
ridgeway
Ridgeway
ridgewise
Ridgewood
ridgy
rigid
round-ridge
runridge
sandridge
Sand Ridge
Sandridge
Sandy Ridges
Shelly Ridge
Silverbark Ridge
Silver Ridge
Spring Ridge
Tallowwood Ridge
teethridge
The Ridgeway
trail ridge scrub grasshopper
Tumbler Ridge
unridged
upridge
Walnut Ridge
Warrah Ridge
Wattle Ridge
Wheat Ridge
Woodridge
Wood-Ridge
Wyandot Ridge
ridging hoe
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