ridge
see also: Ridge
Etymology
Ridge
Etymology
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see also: Ridge
Etymology
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(s)ker-.
Cognate with Scots rig, Northern Frisian reg, Western Frisian rêch, Dutch rug, German Rücken, Swedish rygg, Icelandic hryggur. Cognate to Albanian kërrus and kurriz.
Pronunciation Nounridge (plural ridges)
- (anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
- 1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC ↗; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC ↗, pages 237–238 ↗:
- He thought it was no time to ſtay, / And let the Night too ſteal away, / But in a trice advanced the Knight, / Upon the Bare Ridge, Bolt upright, / And groping out for Ralpho’s Jade, / He found the Saddle too was ſtraid […]
- Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
- Antonyms: groove
- The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.
- The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
- mountain ridge
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC ↗:
- It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick.
- The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
- 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC ↗:
- Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.
- (fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
- A chain of mountains.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i], lines 62–66:
- […] Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, / And meete him, were I tide to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, / Or any other ground inhabitable, / Where euer Engliſhman durſt ſet his foote.
- A chain of hills.
- (oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
- (meteorology) An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
- Antonyms: trough
- French: crête
- German: Grat
- Italian: cresta, crinale, costone
- Portuguese: aresta, cresta
- Russian: гре́бень
- Spanish: cresta, arista
- French: crête
- German: Bergrücken, Grat, Kamm
- Italian: catena
- Portuguese: espinhaço, serro, serra, cordilheira
- Russian: го́рный хребе́т
- Spanish: cordillera, sierra
- Portuguese: serro, serra
- Russian: го́рный хребе́т
- French: dorsale
- Italian: dorsale
- Portuguese: dorsal oceânica
- Russian: океанический хребет
- Spanish: dorsal, dorsal oceánica
ridge (ridges, present participle ridging; simple past and past participle ridged)
Related termsRidge
Etymology
From ridge.
Proper noun- A village in Hertsmere, Hertfordshire.
- Surname, named after the natural feature.
- A male given name.
- German: Riedel
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