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ridgebone

Syllables: ridge·bone/ˈɹɪd͡ʒbəʊn/

ridgebone noun: the backbone or spine.

Noun

ridgebone (plural ridgebones)

  1. (also, figuratively, rare) The backbone or spine.
    • [T]he corrupt blood […] lying cluttered about the ridge-bone.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXII.] Chapter XXI.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius...
    • Let your body be erect and straight, your ridgebone answering to that of the horse; so that his body and your's may appear but as one piece of mechanism.1815, G. LLOYD (Riding Master, and SYMES (R.)), R. SYMES, The Improved Art of Riding, Etc

ridgebone meaning in Tamil

ridgebone in Tamil

தண்டெலும்பு

Examples of ridgebone in a sentence

  • And running zigzag down its back, you can see its squiggly ridgebone taking all the meanders you can see right down below.2005, Brock Brower, Nancy Lawton, Blue Dog, Green River:
  • […]; a Drynnian ridgebone was made for combat, hunting, and tunneling rock.2013, Steve Vera, Drynn:
  • “Voila, my little angry one,” Markus spoke, looking at the foreign piece of junk that had been yanked free without any further struggle, straight out of the ridgebone of his back.2015, Adele DeGirolamo, Stolen Child - In-Between: Book Two:

Forms of ridgebone

pluralridgebones
alternative formridge-bone

Origin of ridgebone

From Middle English rygge-bone, rigbone, from Old English hryċġbān (“backbone; spine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hruggjabain, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjabainą (“backbone”); equivalent to ridge (“the back”) + bone.

Questions about ridgebone

What does ridgebone mean?
Ridgebone means the backbone or spine.
What is ridgebone in Tamil?
Ridgebone in Tamil is தண்டெலும்பு. See Ridgebone meaning in Tamil.
How do you use ridgebone in a sentence?
And running zigzag down its back, you can see its squiggly ridgebone taking all the meanders you can see right down below.
What part of speech is ridgebone?
Ridgebone is a noun.
How do you pronounce ridgebone?
Ridgebone is pronounced /ˈɹɪd͡ʒbəʊn/.
What is the plural of ridgebone?
The plural of ridgebone is ridgebones.

Words near ridgebone in the dictionary

  1. ridgebacks
  2. ridgeband
  3. ridgebands
  4. ridgeboard
  5. ridgeboards
  6. ridgebone
  7. ridgebones
  8. Ridgecrest
  9. ridged
  10. ridged band
  11. ridged bands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ridgebone (page history and authors); ridgebone (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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