ridge
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Is ridge a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.Examples: "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[…]"
2. (fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.Examples: "the British Guards lie down behind a ridge to avoid the shot and shell from the opposite heights"
3. (oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
4. (meteorology) An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.Antonyms: trough
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To form into a ridge.transitive
2. (intransitive) To extend in ridges.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary