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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RIDGE (a word. See also:common to many See also:Teutonic See also:languages, meaning " back," whether of a See also:man or an See also:animal, cf. See also:German Rucke)  , the word applied to many See also:objects resembling the projecting See also:line of an See also:animal's back, such as the See also:strip of See also:soil thrown up by a plough between furrows, the elevations or protuberances on bones which serve for the See also:attachment of muscles or ligaments, &c . In See also:architecture the See also:ridge (Fr. faite, crfte; Gr . First; Ital. asinello) is the highest portion of a roof, which is covered with See also:lead, See also:slate, or tiles, and some-times decorated with a cresting in terra-See also:cotta or See also:metal-See also:work . The See also:term is also applied to the See also:meeting of the See also:common rafters on each See also:side of a roof, which are sometimes butted against an upright See also:board known as the ridge-piece . For the ridge-See also:rib see RIB .

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