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 

• RIDGE TILE (noun)

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)