the Week of Proper 3 / Ordinary 8
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Ridge
Webster's Dictionary
or (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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ridge'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/ridge.html. 1828.
