1. ledge - Noun
2. ledge - Verb
A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good? Amy Hempel
And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '... the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes. Daniel Keyes
Then he tried to recall the lessons of Mr. Wisdom. "it is I myself, eternal Spirit, who drives this Me, the slave, along that ledge. I ought not to care whether he falls and breaks his neck or not. It is not he that is real, it is I – I – I. C. S. Lewis
I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed - I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen? Orson Scott Card
Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly. Anderson Cooper