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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_168432" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_168432" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To wrinkle. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> | ||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_62632" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_62632" /> == | ||
<p> [[Ridge | <p> [[Ridge]] n. L. rugo. </p> 1. The back or top of the back. 2. A long or continued range of hills or mountains or the upper part of such a range. We say, a long ridge of hills, or the highest ridge. 3. A steep elevation, eminence or protuberance. <p> Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct. </p> 4. A long rising land, or a strip of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows. Psalms 65 . 5. The top of the roof of a building. 6. Any long elevation of land. 7. Ridges of a horse's mouth, are wrinkles or risings of flesh in the roof of the mouth. <p> RIDGE, </p> 1. To form a ridge as bristles that ridge the back of a boar. 2. In tillage, to form into ridges with the plow. The farmers in [[Connecticut]] ridge their land for maize, leaving a balk between two ridges. 3. To wrinkle. | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_58167" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_58167" /> == | ||
<p> [[Ridge]] </p> <p> the upper angle of a roof. It has usually, though by no means always, a piece of timber running along it, called the ridge piece, upon which the upper ends of the rafters rest; the tiles with which it is covered are called ridge-tiles. These are sometimes made ornamental, good instances of which are found at Great Malvern and Lincoln. — Parker, Glossary of Architecture, s.v. (See [[Rib]]). </p> | <p> [[Ridge]] </p> <p> the upper angle of a roof. It has usually, though by no means always, a piece of timber running along it, called the ridge piece, upon which the upper ends of the rafters rest; the tiles with which it is covered are called ridge-tiles. These are sometimes made ornamental, good instances of which are found at Great Malvern and Lincoln. '''''—''''' Parker, Glossary of Architecture, s.v. (See [[Rib]]). </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
Latest revision as of 16:52, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest.
(2): ( n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
(3): ( n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
(4): ( v. t.) To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
(5): ( v. t.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
(6): ( v. t.) To wrinkle.
(7): ( n.) 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.
(8): ( n.) 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
Ridge n. L. rugo.
1. The back or top of the back. 2. A long or continued range of hills or mountains or the upper part of such a range. We say, a long ridge of hills, or the highest ridge. 3. A steep elevation, eminence or protuberance.
Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct.
4. A long rising land, or a strip of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows. Psalms 65 . 5. The top of the roof of a building. 6. Any long elevation of land. 7. Ridges of a horse's mouth, are wrinkles or risings of flesh in the roof of the mouth.
RIDGE,
1. To form a ridge as bristles that ridge the back of a boar. 2. In tillage, to form into ridges with the plow. The farmers in Connecticut ridge their land for maize, leaving a balk between two ridges. 3. To wrinkle.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
the upper angle of a roof. It has usually, though by no means always, a piece of timber running along it, called the ridge piece, upon which the upper ends of the rafters rest; the tiles with which it is covered are called ridge-tiles. These are sometimes made ornamental, good instances of which are found at Great Malvern and Lincoln. — Parker, Glossary of Architecture, s.v. (See Rib).
