Applied to various things resembling a cock's comb in position or appearance (= crest). The crest or ridge of a bank of earth, a rising ground…

The crest of a sharply pointed ridge; frequently in topographical names, as Swirrel Edge, Striding Edge). (More frequently, however, names of this…

Chiefly Scottish. The highest point of anything; esp. the crest or summit of a hill or ridge of elevated ground.

(a) a decorative finishing that surmounts the ridge of a roof; (b) the summit of a hill, mountain, or submarine ridge.

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

transferred. A ridge, crest, arête.

A sharp ascending ridge or ‘edge’ of a mountain. The local name in French Switzerland, whence it has become a technical term with mountain-climbers.

The ridge of a hill, of the nose (obsolete).

(a) a series of ridges; (b) the sky-line of a ridge (cf. 7a).