Definitions for ridge

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ridge ridge

Spelling: [rij]

IPA: /rɪdʒ/

Ridge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in ridge (degir).

Definitions for ridge

noun

1. a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
2. the long and narrow upper edge, angle, or crest of something, as a hill, wave, or vault.
3. the back of an animal.
4. any raised, narrow strip, as on cloth.
5. the horizontal line in which the tops of the rafters of a roof meet.
6. (on a weather chart) a narrow, elongated area of high pressure.

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with or form into a ridge or ridges.
2. to mark with or as if with ridges.

verb (used without object)

1. to form ridges.

Origin of ridge

before 900; Middle English rigge (noun), Old English hrycg spine, crest, ridge; cognate with Dutch rug, German Rücken, Old Norse hryggr

Examples for ridge

Besides, they can rake us with bullets from ambush, while we're climbing up the ridge.

He drove the highway to see if tracks led up the ridge toward the smoke.

Johnny was gone, over the ridge, to Bozeman, for repairs on his snowmobile.

I passed you in my buggy when you were coming in with your tent that day on the ridge.

Aylward, Johnston, let your men form a harrow on either side of the ridge.

November drew near, cold below zero—Be thirty below, up the ridge—and still Don and Dan stuck it out.

We have plenty of room here, and you will have one comfortable night on the ridge, at any rate.

High on the slopes of Everest, some 70 sherpas surged over a ridge to see the beating.

To advance further, it was necessary to dislodge the enemy from the ridge.

He and his friend huffed the iron wheelbarrow up the ridge, lashed it onto the Jeep.