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Then intervened a ledge, and in the ledge was a round glacier lake of the very deepest and richest ultramarine you can find among your paint-tubes, and on the lake floated cakes of dazzling white ice.

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  1. noun A horizontal projection forming a narrow shelf on a wall.
  2. noun A cut or projection forming a shelf on a cliff or rock wall.
  3. noun An underwater ridge or rock shelf.
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  • That first night in the mountains, they camped out in the open (for lack of choice), on the side of a mountain where the ledge was at its widest, and this being only about five feet. —  The Woods Out Back
  • Yet our classical know- ledge was the least of the good gifts, which we derived from his zealous and conscientious tutorage. —  Biographia Literaria
  • Above us, the tunnel curved around, some fourteen feet across, and below our ledge was a swiftly moving current of filthy wastewater. —  Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
  • If Questing was the signaller it was almost certain, said Dr. Ackrington, that the prints on the ledge were his prints. —  Color Scheme - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 12: 1943
  • Hanging there on the broad chimney-breast, it had the air of some military decoration pinned to a rough grey coat, for the chimney-breast like the ledge was of stone, breaking the panelled wall. —  Wicked Uncle - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 12 (apa Spotlight)
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  1. Middle English, crossbar, probably from leggen, to lay, from Old English lecgan; see legh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. An assibilated form of leg or *lig (cf. ledger, lidger, assibilated forms of ligger; legget, ligget, lidget, equivalent to ledge, 2); akin to Scots ledgin, a parapet, leggin, laggen, lagen, the rim of a cask, cf. Icelandic lögg = Swedish lagg, the rim of a cask, = Norwegian logg (plural legger), the rim of a cask, the lowest part of a vessel; from the verb represented by English lie, dial. lig: see lie. Cf. ledge, as a variant of lay, the causal form of lie. Cf. also ledger.
  2. A dial. variant of lay, from Middle English leggen, from Anglo-Saxon lecgan, lay: see lay. Cf. ledge, n.
  3. Middle English ledgen, leggen, by apheresis from alegen, allege: see allege.
 

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