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Answer for the clue "Narrow crest ", 5 letters:
ridge

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A ridge is an elongated region of relatively high atmospheric pressure , the opposite of a trough . In hydrologic terms, a ridge is a line or wall of broken ice forced up by pressure. May be fresh or weathered.

Usage examples of ridge.

The two loops may be connected by an appending ridge provided that it does not abut at right angles between the shoulders of the loop formation.

No angle is present as the ending ridge does not abut upon the curving ridge which envelopes it.

The tented arch is formed by the angle made when the curving ridge above the dot abuts upon the ridge immediately under and to the left of the dot.

Points A, B, and X are merely bifurcations rather than an abutment of two ridges at an angle.

The part of the circuit in front of the right delta, however, cannot be construed as a recurving ridge because of the appendage abutting upon it in the line of flow.

The looping ridge A, at the center, has an appendage B abutting upon its recurve.

The core is placed upon the end of the ridge abutting upon the inside of the loop, and so the imaginary line crosses no looping ridge, which is necessary.

At the north side, abutting from the ridge, the Crocodile reared its ungainly shape like some petrified antediluvian monster appointed to guard the valley.

The British batteries turned their attention away from them, and began to search the ridge with shrapnel and prepare the way for the advancing infantry.

Long Hunt in the high-country ridges with the rest of his agemates, and could move through underbrush with no more noise than a passing thought.

In mounds and valleys and ridges and cones, it lay as albescent as bone dust.

On the other side of the ridge fell a wide valley of bare turf, with the Aldern River threading through its center.

I confess that I am disappointed: we had planned to arrive at Potala in the twilight, while there was still alpenglow lighting the north-south ridges and the higher peaks to the north and west of the palace.

A river so-called, really a brook, the Ancre, runs at the foot of the slope and turns eastward beyond Thiepval, where a ridge called Crucifix ridge north-east of the village takes its name from a Christ with outstretched arms visible for many miles around.

And in nearby Arneis, which bordered Aubinas in the south, along the Bel Awl Ridge, there was further rebellion brewing.