ˈridging, vbl. n.
[f. ridge v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of making or covering the ridge of a house; the ridge itself. Also attrib., as ridging grass (see quot. 1864), ridging stone, ridging tile, ridging tree.
| 1458 Visitat. St. Paul's Churches 96 Orreum indiget reparacioni cum stramine et in ryggyng. 1611 Cotgr., Enfaisture, a ridge, or a ridging; or the frame of a ridge, roofe, or house top. 1752 Ray Hist. Reb. 311 The spy was hanged on what they call the ridging-tree of a house. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 198 The droved angular freestone ridging-stone..costs 6d. a lineal foot. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 2286 Ridging, roofing, and flooring tiles. 1864 Grisebach Flora W. Ind. Isl. 787 Ridging grass, Anatherum bicorne. |
2. The action of ploughing in ridges, or of rising up in ridges. Also with
up.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §13 The whiche ryggynge maketh the lande to be drye. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 647 The ridging up of the land may be of utility. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 224 Sometimes two ridges are set up against each other, which is called ridging or bouting. 1897 Geikie Anc. Volcanoes Gt. Brit. I. 12 The ridging up of any part of the terrestrial crust. |
| attrib. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1939/2 A ridging-plow, the wings of which are expanded or contracted by segmental racks and a pinion. |