Definitions for ledge

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ledge ledge

Spelling: [lej]

IPA: /lɛdʒ/

Ledge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in ledge (deegl).

Definitions for ledge

noun

1. a relatively narrow, projecting part, as a horizontal, shelflike projection on a wall or a raised edge on a tray.
2. a more or less flat shelf of rock protruding from a cliff or slope.
3. a reef, ridge, or line of rocks in the sea or other body of water.
4. Mining. a layer or mass of rock underground. a lode or vein.
5. Carpentry. a member similar to but larger than a cleat.
6. Shipbuilding. a minor transverse deck beam running between regular deck beams to form part of a coaming.

verb (used with object)

1. to assemble (a door or the like) with ledges.

Origin of ledge

1300-50; Middle English legge, perhaps derivative of leggen to lay¹; compare Middle High German legge layer, edge, Old English lecg part of a weapon

Examples for ledge

I cried out, and in a foolish effort to save him, I must have let go of the ledge to which I clung.

On a ledge is a small TV set and a cabinet with a few sad possessions spilling out.

And of course Baelish materialized (at just the right moment) to save Sansa and coax Lysa away from the ledge.

We moved slowly down slippery stones, careful not to focus on the ledge to our right that dropped down to the mountain base.

The Major's folded arms dropped off the ledge, as if they had been suddenly paralyzed.

In another chamber there was a hole inside of a ledge we put our hands through.

The guillemot makes no nest, merely laying a single egg on a ledge.

“Thomas was really out there on the ledge, all by himself, for quite a while,” Lemon says.

I said: "Is that a ledge out in the field where sumachs and birches are growing?"

The man who lay on the ledge of the grating was even chilled.