ledgeledge /ledʒ/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
We crept carefully along the narrow ledge. He leapt onto a ledge of rock.2a narrow shelf: There’s some money on the window ledge (=narrow shelf below the window).
WORD ORIGINledge
Origin:
1500-1600 Perhaps from legge, an early form of ➔ LAY1EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- But in ten minutes I was through it and on to the glacier-worn bare ledges.
- But there was only the sea foam, the muted deadly gurgle of the ledges them-selves.
- He managed to drag himself on to a ledge to escape the flames and await rescue.
- Her statue used to stand on that ledge of rock, just there above the spring.
- Here, another overhanging ledge of dolostone protected visitors, allowing them to walk directly behind the falling water.
- Leap on to the ledge and then the door, and finally the plant pot.
- On a guillemot ledge were two green eggs exposed to view.
- Outside, the sky over the ledges and the string of islands and beyond them was clear.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY There’s some money on the window ledge (=narrow shelf below the window).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a narrow flat piece of rock that sticks out on the side of a mountain or cliff: There’s some money on the window ledge (=narrow shelf below the window). (=a flat narrow piece that sticks out from a cliff)· Some of the goats were even grazing on the cliff ledges.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Fenella, clutching the narrow ledge, standing precariously on the piled sacks, thought, in horror: Miach's spell.· Setting specific numbers, circling W's gets you walking a narrow ledge.· Reunited with the Doctor, Ian is trying to find another exit from the cave along a narrow ledge above a chasm.· He stood now flush against the side of the bluff on a narrow ledge, his hands over his face.· They squatted down on a narrow ice ledge.· I followed them on to a narrow, crumbling ledge above the ravine where the wind hurled us against the wall.· We slept on a narrow ledge, clinging to each other.· This is principally a path following a narrow undulating ledge which runs across the northern face of Pillar.
NOUN· Bernadette Pollock, 32, climbed a drainpipe on to a window ledge after losing her keys.· Maybe it was already fated that I should fall from a window ledge.· Jump along the window ledge, dropping down to spray the bin, now jump the three aliens.· He indicated a gadget upon the window ledge.· Spray it and then use the wrench on it, jump on to the window ledge then on to the door.· He turned and saw that the window ledge was about three feet above him.· He placed it carefully on the window ledge behind the curtain.· Then leap on to the window ledge of Toys N Stuff, then the door and spray the plant pot.
We crept carefully along the narrow ledge. He leapt onto a ledge of rock.2a narrow shelf: There’s some money on the window ledge (=narrow shelf below the window).