Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The crest-line of a ridge of any kind.
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Examples
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Often when fires destroy ridge-line or canyon homes the reaction is to blame the people who built in the red zone.
Robert Weller: Boulder, Colorado: Recreational Sports Rescheduled for Wildfire 2010
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Often when fires destroy ridge-line or canyon homes the reaction is to blame the people who built in the red zone.
Robert Weller: Boulder, Colorado: Recreational Sports Rescheduled for Wildfire 2010
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Often when fires destroy ridge-line or canyon homes the reaction is to blame the people who built in the red zone.
Robert Weller: Boulder, Colorado: Recreational Sports Rescheduled for Wildfire 2010
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Also tarps are rectangular, arrange the long side to the south or east of the ridge-line since worsening winds circle counter-clockwise and this will give you better protection if the weather worsens.
Survival Skills, Camping Tips, and More Great Outdoor Advice from Field and Stream Magazine 2006
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Also tarps are rectangular, arrange the long side to the south or east of the ridge-line since worsening winds circle counter-clockwise and this will give you better protection if the weather worsens.
Survival Skills, Camping Tips, and More Great Outdoor Advice from Field and Stream Magazine 2006
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Getting down from the ridge-line or off the water if you're boating is the most important safety measure you can take to avoid a strike.
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The house had been built on the ridge-line of a steep, bush-covered slope that ended in a bow-shaped beach, its pink sand darkened by the waves.
The Rich Man's Royal Mistress Donald, Robyn 2006
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The house had been built on the ridge-line of a steep, bush-covered slope that ended in a bow-shaped beach, its pink sand darkened by the waves.
The Rich Man's Royal Mistress Donald, Robyn 2006
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Although Flirt wanted to go back over the river, Marit guided her a short distance east of the river along the lower ridge-line where the road ran, in places carved into the rock itself.
Spirit Gate 2006
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Ahead of them the narrow way curved even more southward, following the stream as it angled southeast toward a low gap between the hills to the north and east and the ridge-line to the south.
Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005
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