A tile used as a roofing material, a roofing tile; = tile, n.1 1a (also in non-count use); (esp. in early use also) tiling for covering the top…

a tile used for roofing the ridge of a building; a ridge tile.

A tile of semicircular or curved section covering the ridge and sometimes the hips (hip, n.1 2a) of a roof, used typically for decorative purposes.

Architecture (a) The finishing of stone, metal, etc., which surmounts a roof-ridge, wall, screen, or the like; a cresting; sometimes applied to…

a bent tile used to cover the crest or ridge of a roof.

A stone or slate used to construct or tile a roof or roof ridge; spec. the coping stone of a roof ridge.

Architecture. A curved or ridge tile; = crest, n.1 6.

(a) (attributive) designating a tile used to cover the ridge of a roof; (b) the crest of a mountain ridge or elevation.

A set of ridge tiles on a roof. Also (occasionally): the action of fixing ridge tiles on a roof.

= ridge tile, n.; (also) any of a set of tiles that forms the crown of a structure.

Applied to various things resembling a cock's comb in position or appearance (= crest). The crest or ridge of a roof. dialect.