ridge

Noun

• a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters

• any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane

• a long narrow range of hills

• a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean

• any long raised strip

• a long narrow natural elevation or striation

Verb

• form into a ridge

• spade into alternate ridges and troughs
  • ridge the soil
    

• throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides
  • He ridged his corn
    

• plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip

• extend in ridges
  • The land ridges towards the South
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ridgepole , rooftree , ridgeline