n. | 1. | The back, or top of the back; a crest. |
2. | A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys. | |
3. | 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. | |
4. | (Arch.) 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. | |
5. | (Fort.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way. | |
v. t. | 1. | To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges. |
2. | To form into ridges with the plow, as land. | |
3. | To wrinkle. |
Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | ridge - any long raised strip | |
3. | ridge - a long narrow range of hills | |
4. | ridge - any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane | |
5. | ridge - a beam laid along the ridge of a roof; provides attachment for upper end of rafters | |
Verb | 1. | ridge - extend in ridges; "The land ridges towards the South" |
2. | ridge - plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip | |
3. | ridge - throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides; "He ridged his corn" | |
4. | ridge - spade into alternate ridges and troughs; "ridge the soil" | |
5. | ridge - form into a ridge |