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.

Noun

(en noun)

A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.

* Francis Bacon

a heap of vassals and slaves

* W. Black

He had heaps of friends.

A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

a heap of earth or stones

* Dryden

Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.

A great number or large quantity of things.

* Bishop Burnet

a vast heap , both of places of scripture and quotations

* Robert Louis Stevenson

I have noticed a heap of things in my life.

(computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.

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, year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=Jonathan Wilson , title=Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap , and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.}}