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Definitions for Ridged

[1] a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
[2] the long and narrow upper edge, angle, or crest of something, as a hill, wave, or vault.
[3] the back of an animal.
[4] any raised, narrow strip, as on cloth.
[5] the horizontal line in which the tops of the rafters of a roof meet.
[6] (on a weather chart) a narrow, elongated area of high pressure.
[7] to provide with or form into a ridge or ridges.
[8] to mark with or as if with ridges.
[9] to form ridges.
[10] a long narrow raised land formation with sloping sides esp one formed by the meeting of two faces of a mountain or of a mountain buttress or spur
[11] any long narrow raised strip or elevation, as on a fabric or in ploughed land
[12] anatomy any elongated raised margin or border on a bone, tooth, tissue membrane, etc
[13] the top of a roof at the junction of two sloping sides (as modifier ) a ridge tile
[14] the back or backbone of an animal, esp a whale
[15] meteorol an elongated area of high pressure, esp an extension of an anticyclone Compare trough (def. 4)
[16] to form into a ridge or ridges

Words related to Ridged

ridgejagged, corrugated, ribbed, furrowed, striate, toothed, strigose

Words nearby Ridged

ridgerider, rider's bone, ridered, ridership, ridesharing, ridge, ridge rib, ridgeback, ridgecrest, ridgefield, ridgefield park

Origin of Ridged

before 900; Middle English rigge (noun), Old English hrycg spine, crest, ridge; cognate with Dutch rug, German Rücken, Old Norse hryggr

Other words from Ridged

ridge·like , adjective
un·ridged , adjective

Word origin for Ridged

Old English hrycg ; related to Old High German hrucki , Old Norse hryggr

Synonyms for Ridged

corrugated, furrowed, jagged, ribbed, toothed