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ridge

UK/ɹɪd͡ʒ/ US/ˈrɪdʒ/ fairly common
noun (5) verb (5)

noun

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any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane

5.

a beam laid along the ridge of a roof; provides attachment for upper end of rafters

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verb

1.

extend in ridges

  • “The land ridges towards the South”
2.

plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip

3.

throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides

  • “He ridged his corn”
4.

spade into alternate ridges and troughs

  • “ridge the soil”
5.

form into a ridge

Origin

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”).

Phrases

  • Acacia Ridge
  • Acalanes Ridge
  • Alpine Ridge
  • alveolar ridge
  • apical ectodermal ridge
  • Bald Ridge
  • Balmoral Ridge
  • Barden Ridge
  • Rhodesian Ridgeback
  • ridging hoe

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