LEDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ledge mean? 

• LEDGE (noun)
  The noun LEDGE has 1 sense:

1. a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water

  Familiarity information: LEDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

ledge; shelf

Hypernyms ("ledge" is a kind of...):

ridge (a long narrow natural elevation or striation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ledge"):

berm (a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope)

 Context examples 

But I struggled upward, and at last I reached a ledge several feet deep and covered with soft green moss, where I could lie unseen, in the most perfect comfort.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At nine o'clock he stubbed his toe on a rocky ledge, and from sheer weariness and weakness staggered and fell.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was not four feet from the window-ledge to the roof of the carriages.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And I am afraid there's a skeleton—in a wig—on the ledge of the desk.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Hum!" said Jo, still intent upon her sister's face, for the bright color faded as quickly as it came, the smile vanished, and presently a tear lay shining on the window ledge.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

From that direction the place is really inaccessible, and, were it not for a hardish ledge which runs at the very base of the precipice, we should have had to turn back.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At a particularly bad spot, where a ledge of barely submerged rocks jutted out into the river, Hans cast off the rope, and, while Thornton poled the boat out into the stream, ran down the bank with the end in his hand to snub the boat when it had cleared the ledge.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I took nine of these sticks, and fixing them firmly in the ground in a quadrangular figure, two feet and a half square, I took four other sticks, and tied them parallel at each corner, about two feet from the ground; then I fastened my handkerchief to the nine sticks that stood erect; and extended it on all sides, till it was tight as the top of a drum; and the four parallel sticks, rising about five inches higher than the handkerchief, served as ledges on each side.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I sat down on the narrow ledge; I hushed the scared infant in my lap: you turned an angle of the road: I bent forward to take a last look; the wall crumbled; I was shaken; the child rolled from my knee, I lost my balance, fell, and woke.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I went whilst my courage was fresh straight to the window on the south side, and at once got outside on the narrow ledge of stone which runs around the building on this side.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)