ridge

Meanings

Noun

• The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
• Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
• The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
• The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
• The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
• A chain of mountains.
• A chain of hills.
• A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
• An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.

Verb

• To form into a ridge
• To extend in ridges

Origin

• From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreuk-, *(s)ker-. Cognate with Scots rig, North Frisian reg, West Frisian rêch, Dutch rug, German Rücken, Swedish rygg, Icelandic hryggur. Cognate to Albanian kërrus and kurriz.