- a shelflike projection: a window ledge
- a projecting ridge of rocks
- such a ridge under the surface of the water near the shore
- Mining a vein
Origin of ledge
Middle English legge, probably from base of leggen, to lay
A man jumps from one ledge to another
The definition of a ledge is a shelf or ridge that sticks out from something.
An example of a ledge is the cliff of a mountain that you can stand on.
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ledge
noun
- A horizontal projection forming a narrow shelf on a wall.
- A cut or projection forming a shelf on a cliff or rock wall.
- An underwater ridge or rock shelf.
- A level of rock-bearing ore; a vein.
Origin of ledge
Middle English crossbar probably from leggen to lay from Old English lecgan ; see legh- in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
- ledg′y
adjective
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Noun
(plural ledges)
- 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.
- (geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
- A layer or stratum.
- A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
- (architecture) A (door or window) lintel .
- (architecture) A cornice.
- A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
- (slang) A lege; a legend.
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Sentence Examples
- The ledge was just wide enough for her foot to fit fully.
- Sheer over a rocky ledge of horse-shoe shape.
- Her fall was brutally interrupted by a rock ledge about five feet down.
- Dr Jackson in 1903 climbed to the ledge of the rock and was able to collate the lower part of the four large Persian columns; he thus convinced himself that Foy's conjecture of arstam (" righteousness") for Rawlinson's abistam or abastam was correct.
- As he spoke, he strode from the commo room to the ledge outside.
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