ridge
Speech parts
1. ridge - Noun
2. ridge - Verb
3. Ridge - Proper noun
Meaning
To wrinkle.
The back, or top of the back; a crest.
A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
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.
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.
The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
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I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in.
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.
And as the company passed from the valley, into a higher ground, The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow, and on the mound, Until nothing was left, nothing at all except the body of Sorrow, That rose in time, to float upon the surface of the eaten soil.
A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.
Don't go to the ridge where there are no birds.