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n. One of three breeds of dog with a distinctive ridge of hair that runs against the grain of the rest of the coat along the spine: the Rhodesian Ridgeback, the Phu Quoc Ridgeback and the Thai Ridgeback.
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Ridgeback may refer to:
- Ridgeback (bicycles), a British bicycle brand
Ridgeback is a British bicycle brand manufacturing road, urban, utility, youth and mountain models. Their bikes are distributed by Sportline UK which is owned by H Young Holdings.
Usage examples of "ridgeback".
Keane lives in the small, fairly isolated mountain town of Nederland with his two dogs, Buck, a cross between a Rhodesian Ridgeback and a Great Dane, and Wheat, a schipperke who was abused by his previous owner.
A rangy, strungout dog of a guy, shirtless in jeans with blond hair worn ridgeback style.
The ridgeback had a handful of pamphlets, and he was staring at Stahn like one of them was something in a zoo.
Della knew Whitey and Darla from the merge scene: he was a ridgeback, and she was his rocker wife.
Oscar, our Rhodesian ridgeback, is found lying on the road outside our house and he has been sliced up and down with a panga.
Hagrid would have liked nothing better than a pet dragon, as Harry, Ron, and Hermione knew only too well - he had owned one for a brief period during their first year, a vicious Norwegian Ridgeback by the name of Norbert.
There is a noise along the ridgeback of the slope as if the stones and the very bushes are resonant, are singing an aberrant hymn.
My father had bought the Ridgeback from a trainer in Umtali, a red-faced Afrikaner who beat his animals with his fists, then turned them loose on a dummy whose head and hands were painted dark.
Instead they stood in the bed of their lorry and tossed sandbags and nervous glances at the Ridgeback as it paced the edge of our property line with a show of hackles and teeth and black gums.
I said, and the Ridgeback let go of the terr and obediently sat before me, fixing its flat stare on my throat.
Granma fell into a dream in which an enormous dog held his foot fast in its muscled jaws, and we left him, motionless and sweating, on the dirt floor of the garden shed, which was hidden by a dense tangle of undergrowth, outside the territory the Ridgeback had marked with its urine.
Regardless, the pistol was useful only to ward away night fears, like the Ridgeback that lay motionless beside the burning house, its tongue lolling.
To the south, a steeply-sloping ridgeback connected the plug to the equally sloping ramparts of the Weissspitze.
However, there was a large natural depression here on the ridgeback itself, earth-movers merely had to improve on it, and these headlands do break up storm winds that might otherwise play hell.
There were no dogs more ferocious than the African ridgeback, for they had been bred to fight lions and hunt men.