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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ledge
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cliff ledge (=a flat narrow piece that sticks out from a cliff)
▪ Some of the goats were even grazing on the cliff ledges.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
narrow
▪ 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
window
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ledge

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.

  2. A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.

  3. A layer or stratum.

    The lowest ledge or row should be of stone.
    --Sir H. Wotton.

  4. (Mining) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.

  5. (Shipbuilding) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ledge

late 13c., "crossbar on a door," perhaps from Middle English verb leggen "to place, lay" (see lay (v.)). Sense of "narrow shelf" is first recorded 1550s; "shelf-like projection of rock" is from 1550s.

Wiktionary
ledge

n. 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. 2 (geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks. 3 A layer or stratum. 4 A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral. 5 (architecture) A (door or window) lintel . 6 (architecture) A cornice. 7 A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams. 8 (context slang English) A lege; a legend.

WordNet
ledge

n. a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water [syn: shelf]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Ledge

Ledge or Ledges may refer to:

  • Ridge, a geological feature
  • Reef, an underwater feature
  • Stratum, a layer of rock
  • A narrow, flat area with cliff faces or steep slopes both below and above
  • Slang for legend or legendary
  • Window ledge
  • Wisconsin Ledge AVA (American Viticultural Area]
  • Ledges (album)
  • Ledges State Park

Usage examples of "ledge".

Any honest afrit would by now have grown wings and shot down to find me, but without a nearby ledge or roof to hop to, the skeleton was stymied.

Alem Mikail Dem Alem got up from the window ledge and came over to kneel between the two women.

Meanwhile, the Baas had better take off his boots, since the feet of those Bushmen whose spooks I feel all about me have made the ledge very slippery.

Ground slanted downward, begrown with bushes and dwarf trees well apart, otherwise ruddy-bare to a narrow ledge.

The commander and the biologist sat at her feet on the round ledge formed by the base of the turret.

Averitt placed the stub of his chalk down on the little ledge under the blackboard and tried unsuccessfully to rub the white dust of his hands.

Safh or high bouldery ledge of the left bank, where it receives the broad Kusayb watercourse.

Twice something bumped at the shingled ledge outside, or at the window itself, and went still.

Sanner peeled off one of his caving gloves and waved his bare hand through the air as they continued along the ledge.

Then as Pam screamed his name he slipped again and fell feet first, bypassing the ledge, into the storm-driven cloacal rage below.

Clambering up the pile of broken stone, he squeezed out through the holecomand found himself standing alone on a granite ledge surrounded by thick fog that shrouded the view on all sides.

But gathered at the foot of the ledge they were descending, spears poised, were perhaps ten males, some hardly past cubhood, others showing the snowy shine of fur which was the badge of age.

They filled every cuneus and maenianum of the amphitheater, from the best seats up to the hard ledges of the highest tier.

She put the cutwork lid on the brazier with a sigh and settled herself on the window ledge.

He stopped at the ledge, Cyd moving up next to him, not the least bit concerned by the height, nor apparently by the fact that he was readying a belaying line.