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ˈridging, vbl. n.
[f. ridge v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of making or covering the ridge of a house; the ridge itself. Also attrib., as ridging grass (see quot. 1864), ridging stone, ridging tile, ridging tree.
1458Visitat. St. Paul's Churches 96 Orreum indiget reparacioni cum stramine et in ryggyng. 1611Cotgr., Enfaisture, a ridge, or a ridging; or the frame of a ridge, roofe, or house top. 1752Ray Hist. Reb. 311 The spy was hanged on what they call the ridging-tree of a house. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 198 The droved angular freestone ridging-stone..costs 6d. a lineal foot. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 2286 Ridging, roofing, and flooring tiles. 1864Grisebach Flora W. Ind. Isl. 787 Ridging grass, Anatherum bicorne.
2. The action of ploughing in ridges, or of rising up in ridges. Also with up.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §13 The whiche ryggynge maketh the lande to be drye. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 647 The ridging up of the land may be of utility. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 224 Sometimes two ridges are set up against each other, which is called ridging or bouting. 1897Geikie Anc. Volcanoes Gt. Brit. I. 12 The ridging up of any part of the terrestrial crust.
attrib.1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1939/2 A ridging-plow, the wings of which are expanded or contracted by segmental racks and a pinion. |