ridge
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ridge/rɪʤ/
▶noun
- 1 a long, narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed.
■ the edge formed where the two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top.
- 2 a narrow raised band on a surface.
■ a raised strip of arable land, especially one of a set separated by furrows.
- 3 Meteorology an elongated region of high barometric pressure.
– derivatives
ridgy adjective.
ridgy adjective.
– origin OE hrycg ‘spine, crest’, of Gmc origin.
'ridge' also found in these Oxford entries:
alveolar
- anticline
- apical
- arête
- arris
- bank
- baulk
- berm
- carina
- chine
- cingulum
- col
- crease
- crest
- crista
- cuesta
- delirium
- dental
- divide
- dorsum
- drumlin
- dune
- esker
- eyebrow
- frenulum
- gyrus
- hogback
- horseshoe bat
- housetop
- hummock
- jugum
- keel
- knife-edge
- knurl
- ledge
- levee
- ley
- lynchet
- mid-ocean ridge
- monadnock
- nut
- overfall
- plica
- Pozidriv
- ramp
- raphe
- razorback
- razorfish
- reef
- Rhodesian ridgeback
