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Ridging

Ridge \Ridge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ridged; p. pr. & vb. n. Ridging.]

  1. To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.

    Bristles ranged like those that ridge the back Of chafed wild boars.
    --Milton.

  2. To form into ridges with the plow, as land.

  3. To wrinkle. ``With a forehead ridged.''
    --Cowper.

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ridging

n. A pattern of ridges. vb. (present participle of ridge English)

Usage examples of "ridging".

Harpalus were already below the horizon, and with them the last territory with which Ridging or Shandara could claim familiarity.

Even Ridging, whose temperament kept him normally expecting something new to happen, was beginning to get a trifle bored with the place.

The problem did not seem to concern his field directly, but he judged rightly that the present situation affected Shandara the way an offer of a genuine fragment of Terrestrial core material would influence Ridging himself.

Shandara was picking his way down an unusually uninviting bit of slope when Ridging, who had already negotiated it, spoke up sharply.

That could not be right, though, Ridging reflected, if this stuff was responsible for hiding the features which should have been visible from the crater rim.

These were not wide enough even to constitute a tripping danger, and the men ignored them for the time being, though Ridging made a mental note to get a sample of the rock if he could detach one.

After some discussion of the problem, it was agreed that Shandara should stand still, while Ridging walked in what he hoped was the right direction for what he hoped was five yards, and then start from wherever he found himself to quarter the area as well as he could by length of stride.

With a feeling of annoyance they stopped, and Ridging repeated the treatment.

Shandara and Ridging stuck to the relatively dust-free slopes, therefore.

She gazed backward, down over a grand sweep of forest, rolling and ridging away to the far-flung peaks.

He reached down, the calluses ridging the index finger and thumb of his sword hand scraping her chin and jawline as he raised her face.