ridges

Noun

ridge (plural ridges)

1. The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
   • 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[…]1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in...
2. Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
   • The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.

   Antonyms:

   groove

3. The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
   • mountain ridge
4. The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
   • Among the domestic animals which may generally be seen in native houses, are gaudy parrots, green, red, and blue, a few domestic fowls, which have baskets hung for them to lay in under the eaves, and who sleep on the ridge, and several half-starved wolfish-looking dogs.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 258
5. The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
   • the British Guards lie down behind a ridge to avoid the shot and shell from the opposite heights1853-1855, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington
6. A chain of mountains.
   • […]Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, / And meete him, were I tide to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, / Or any other ground inhabitable, / Where euer Engliſhman durſt ſet his foote.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...

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