RIDGE
NOUNS
► BALK ► BAULK a ridge, heap, or mound upon the ground, as a grave-mound → c885 obs.
► BARF a long low ridge or hill, generally isolated → 1678 Eng. dial.
► CAM the crest of a hill, a ridge → 1864 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► KAME a long, narrow, steep-sided mound or ridge; a hill-ridge → 1814 Sc.
► LEAD a mountain spur; a steep ridge → 1913 Amer. dial.
► LOMA a hill, mound, or ridge → 1857 Amer. dial.
► RIDGELET a small narrow ridge of land → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RIFF a ridge → 1883 Eng. dial.
► SCOUT a high rock or hill; a projecting ridge; a precipice → 1781 Eng. dial. obs.
► WHALEBACK ► WHALEBACK RIDGE ► WHALESBACK a sharply rising hill or ridge of land → 1879 Amer. dial.
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