Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with or consisting of a ledge or ledges; shaped like a ledge; of the character of a ledge.
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- adjective Having a
ledge or ledges.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Over millions of years the river has progressively cut its way into the rock, and the cliffs that now wall the valley are ledged and terraced at different heights by the old beds of the river.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Over millions of years the river has progressively cut its way into the rock, and the cliffs that now wall the valley are ledged and terraced at different heights by the old beds of the river.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Most of the tracks are located in and around the limestone-ledged Paluxy River, best seen when the water levels were low, as they would be in the fall when we went.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Most of the tracks are located in and around the limestone-ledged Paluxy River, best seen when the water levels were low, as they would be in the fall when we went.
Clever Girl 2009
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At General Motors Co., executives have openly acknow ledged they hope GM's battery-powered Chevrolet Volt, due out later this year, will have a "Prius effect" on the company.
Toyota Plans New Prius Models Mike Ramsey 2010
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Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda acknow ledged over the weekend that coordinated intervention, in which other major central banks would sell the yen alongside the Bank of Japan, would be "difficult" to implement.
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Jeronymo! how generously has he acknow-ledged since, the part his friend at that time acted!
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There Allenby and Dawnay told me the British were marched and fought nearly to a standstill, in the ledged and precipitous hills, shell-torn and bullet-spattered, amid which they wrestled with the
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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Straggling, haphazard little villages ledged on the slope, high up, beside their wet, green, hanging meadows, with pine trees behind and the valley bottom far below, and rocks right above, on both sides, seemed like little temporary squattings of outcast people.
Twilight in Italy 2003
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Yet there is, unseen, this overshadowed, overhung, sordid mountain population, ledged on the slopes and in the crevices.
Twilight in Italy 2003
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