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▪ I. ridged, ppl. a.|rɪdʒd| [f. ridge n.1 or v. Cf. ME. broke-rugget broken-backed.] Rising in a ridge or ridges; marked by a ridge or ridges.
c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) iv, He renneth with leepes and with rygged and stondyng heere.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. i. (1895) 31 Afterwarde they founde shyppes wyth rydged kyeles. 1578Lyte Dodoens 313 A certayne fruit like unto small peares, saving they be ridged alongest the sydes. 1622Drayton Polyolb. xxvii. 11 So lowd the Ecchoes cry'd, that they were heard to shreeke To Fournesse ridged Front. 1681Grew Musæum i. iii. 51 A kind of a Ridged Tail or Epiphysis. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 136 A great Room..with a Ridged Roof. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 15/1 Sloping or ridged like ordinary mean Houses. 1789T. Wright Meth. Watering Meadows (1790) 25 A field that has been..left by the plow in a ridged state. 1830Tennyson Sea-Fairies 39 When the sharp clear twang of the golden chords Runs up the ridged sea. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 329 Seeds ridged and wrinkled. ▪ II. ridged obs. variant of rigid a. |