Noun

(en noun)

An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.

The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.

(gaming) An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.

* 1998:' Mr MI Pennington, ''Can the Players be Trusted?'' on rec.games.frp.live-action [The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [players can't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just ' flange it back to the original plot line.

* 2007:' balor, ''Changing the metaphysics'' on Rule 7 [http://forums.rule7.co.uk/Topic28357-44-2.aspx] 'Oh look , the amulet of ' flange has been activated, this means all Paladins now only have one heal per day instead of two.'

A vulva.

* 2001:' tedfat, '''''Flange !!!! in alt.society.nottingham [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.society.nottingham/browse_thread/thread/7d1653d74a6ac61b/4fdf1b47e3e1bb70?lnk=st&q=%22her+flange%22&rnum=9&hl=en#4fdf1b47e3e1bb70]

I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange . Imagine my surprise when she got up went downstairs to my toolbox and brought me up a metal looking object called a flange!!!!! Needless to say when she asked to see my nuts the next time I obliged by doing exactly the same as her.

* 2003: Ray Gordon, Hot Sheets [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1562013920&id=c4hY8RgKlGgC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=flange+fuck&sig=8rlmxhjFq0jxtxQ_cW333gA5u5Q&hl=en]

'God, she's got a tight flange !' the plumber gasped, splaying the girl's buttocks and focusing on her O-ring.

(rare, humorous) The collective noun for a group of baboons.

* 2006 , Rick Crosier - Getting Away with Murder

(I suspect they hired a flange of baboons to mind the house.)

Noun

(wikipedia ridge) (en noun)

(lb) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.

:(Hudibras)

Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.

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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.

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, chapter=26, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.}}

(lb) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.

:(Stocqueler)

A chain of mountains.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:the frozen ridges of the Alps

A chain of hills.

A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.

(lb) A type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains.