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Ridged   /rɪdʒd/   Listen
verb
Ridge  v. t.  (past & past part. ridged; pres. part. ridging)  
1.
To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges. "Bristles ranged like those that ridge the back Of chafed wild boars."
2.
To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
3.
To wrinkle. "With a forehead ridged."





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"Ridged" Quotes from Famous Books



... the rear. It is divided symmetrically into two hemispheres, the right and the left. These hemispheres are connected with each other by a small bridge of fibers called the corpus callosum. Each hemisphere is furrowed and ridged with convolutions, an arrangement which allows greater surface for the distribution of the gray cellular matter over it. Besides these irregularities of surface, each hemisphere is marked also by two deep clefts or fissures—the fissure of Rolando, extending ...
— The Mind and Its Education • George Herbert Betts
... rich soil, but the application of fresh manure should be avoided, as it induces forked and ill-shaped roots. Let the ground be trenched two spits deep and left ridged up as long as possible. As early in March as the weather will permit level the surface and sow the seed in drills 15 in. apart, covering it with half an inch of fine soil. When the plants are 2 or 3 in. high, ...
— Gardening for the Million • Alfred Pink
... along through it in ploughing her course onward; and yet, the outlook conveyed a better idea of its vastness than when I was on the poop aft and more elevated above the surface level, for the immense plain of water, in constant surging motion—now flat as a meadow, now ridged with curling waves as far as the eye could reach, and then again scooped out into a wide hollow valley covered over with yeasty foam, looking as if a giant custard had been poured over it—extended to where the curving horizon met the sky-line in the distance, our ship, ...
— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson


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