LekhoriLekhoriThe 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[…]
Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.
The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
mountain ridge
A village in Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
A toponymic surname from Middle English, named after the natural feature.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Pr...
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