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LEDGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
Synonyms:
ledge; shelf
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("ledge" is a kind of...):
ridge (a long narrow natural elevation or striation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ledge"):
berm (a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb ledge
Context examples:
Fanny's imagination had prepared her for something grander than a mere spacious, oblong room, fitted up for the purpose of devotion: with nothing more striking or more solemn than the profusion of mahogany, and the crimson velvet cushions appearing over the ledge of the family gallery above.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Here and there were flowering plants, unknown to me; here and there I saw snakes, and one raised his head from a ledge of rock and hissed at me with a noise not unlike the spinning of a top. Little did I suppose that he was a deadly enemy and that the noise was the famous rattle.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I don’t think I have had the pleasure of seeing you since you favoured me with those attentions as I lay on the ledge above the Reichenbach Fall.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He came upon a valley where rock ptarmigan rose on whirring wings from the ledges and muskegs.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and put it on a ledge in the back of his chair, expressly made for its reception.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The first half was perfectly easy, but from there upwards it became continually steeper until, for the last fifty feet, we were literally clinging with our fingers and toes to tiny ledges and crevices in the rock.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Not so bad as it seems, for I should only plague him if I went, so I might as well stay and plague you a little longer, you can bear it better, in fact I think it agrees with you excellently, and Laurie composed himself for a lounge on the broad ledge of the balustrade.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When we were in Switzerland he followed us with Moriarty, and it was undoubtedly he who gave me that evil five minutes on the Reichenbach ledge.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He awoke in his right mind, lying on his back on a rocky ledge.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But I had no time to think of the danger, for another stone sang past me as I hung by my hands from the edge of the ledge.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
