Word Meanings - RIDGELET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little ridge.

Related words: (words related to RIDGELET)

• RIDGELING
  A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• RIDGELET
  A little ridge.
• RIDGEBONE
  The backbone. Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.
• RIDGEBAND
  The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. Halliwell.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• RIDGEL
  See RIDGELLING
• RIDGEROPE
  See LIFE
• RIDGE
  The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault. (more info) rÜcken, OHG. rucki, hrukki, Icel. hryggr, Sw. rugg, Dan. ryg. sq. 1. The back, or top
• RIDGEPOLE
  The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.
• RIDGEPIECE; RIDGEPLATE
  See RIDGEPOLE
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
  A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
• AUCTION BRIDGE
  A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• PORRIDGE
  A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc. (more info) by OE. porree a kind of pottage,
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• SEA PARTRIDGE
  The gilthead , a fish of the British coasts.
• PARTRIDGE
  F. perdrix, L. perdix, -icis, fr. Gr. 1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidæ, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. Full many
• PIPERIDGE
  See PEPPERIDGE
• BRIDGELESS
  Having no bridge; not bridged.
• BRIDGE
  The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument. (more info) akin to Fries. bregge, D. brug, OHG. bruccu, G. brücke, Icel. bryggja
• WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE
  See BRIDGE
• UNABRIDGED
  Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole.