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RIDGE TILE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ridge tile mean?
• RIDGE TILE (noun)
The noun RIDGE TILE has 1 sense:
1. a decorative tile that is bent in cross section; used to cover the ridge of a roof
Familiarity information: RIDGE TILE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A decorative tile that is bent in cross section; used to cover the ridge of a roof
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("ridge tile" is a kind of...):
roofing tile; tile (a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing)
Context examples
The ladders were now applied, and mounted by several men; which the monkey observing, and finding himself almost encompassed, not being able to make speed enough with his three legs, let me drop on a ridge tile, and made his escape.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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