RIDGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ridged mean? 

• RIDGED (adjective)
  The adjective RIDGED has 1 sense:

1. having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship

  Familiarity information: RIDGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIDGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Synonyms:

carinate; carinated; keeled; ridged

Context example:

a carinate sepal

Participle:

ridge (form into a ridge)

 Context examples 

On the eastern side of this plain the country-side sloped upwards, thick with vines in summer, but now ridged with the brown bare enclosures.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the well-known names of these towns I learn in what county I have lighted; a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)