Ledge










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Ledge \Ledge\ (l[e^]j), n. [Akin to AS. licgan to lie, Icel.
liggja; cf. Icel. l["o]gg the ledge or rim at the bottom of a
cask. See Lie to be prostrate.] [Formerly written lidge.]

1. A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which
resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting
ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
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2. A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
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3. A layer or stratum.
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The lowest ledge or row should be of stone. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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4. (Mining) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable
mineral.
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5. (Shipbuilding) A piece of timber to support the deck,
placed athwartship between beams.
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ledge
n 1: a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
[syn: ledge, shelf]
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ledge [ledʒ]
Fenstersims; Leiste; Platte (Fels-)

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ledge

lépcsôzet
polc
párkány
szegély
szirt
szél
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Felsvorsprung m
ledge

Platte f (Felsplatte)
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Sims m
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121 Moby Thesaurus words for "ledge":
band, bank, beam-end, bed, bedding, belt, billiard table, board,
border, bordure, bowling green, brim, brink, brow, coast,
coral heads, corbel, couche, course, dead flat, dead level, deck,
earth, edge, esplanade, featheredge, flange, flat, flatland, floor,
frame, fringe, gallery, gradin, gradino, ground, hem, hob,
homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault,
horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane,
horizontal projection, ironbound coast, labellum, labium, labrum,
layer, ledges, lee shore, level, level line, level plane, limb,
limbus, lip, list, mantel, mantelshelf, mantle, marge, margin,
mean sea level, measures, overhang, overlayer, overstory, parterre,
pitfall, plain, plane, platform, prairie, predella, projection,
quicksands, ragged edge, retable, rim, rockbound coast, rocks,
sandbank, sandbar, sands, sea level, sea of grass, seam, selvage,
shallows, shelf, shoals, shore, shoulder, side, sideline, sill,
skirt, stage, step, steppe, story, stratum, substratum, superaltar,
superstratum, table, terrace, thickness, tier, topsoil,
undercurrent, underlayer, understory, understratum, undertow,
verge, water level, zone



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