noun
- A long narrow natural elevation or striation.
- Any long raised strip.
- A long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean.
- A long narrow range of hills.
- synonyms: ridgeline
- Any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane.
- A beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters.
verb
- Extend in ridges.
- usage: "The land ridges towards the South"
- Plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip.
- Throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides.
- usage: "He ridged his corn"
- Spade into alternate ridges and troughs.
- usage: "ridge the soil"
- Form into a ridge. .
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