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ledge

/lej/US // lɛdʒ //UK // (lɛdʒ) //

壁架,壁炉,窗台

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a relatively narrow, projecting part, as a horizontal, shelflike projection on a wall or a raised edge on a tray.
    • : a more or less flat shelf of rock protruding from a cliff or slope.
    • : a reef, ridge, or line of rocks in the sea or other body of water.
    • : Mining. a layer or mass of rock underground.a lode or vein.
    • : Carpentry. a member similar to but larger than a cleat.
    • : Shipbuilding. a minor transverse deck beam running between regular deck beams to form part of a coaming.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ledged, ledg·ing.

    • : to assemble with ledges.

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Examples

  • I walked it at my own risk, trying to keep my balance on a narrow ledge, afraid, praying I’d make it the length of the bridge unscathed.

  • Sturdy wooden construction, an entrance hole big enough to accommodate adult owls, and a ledge or textured “front porch” area to let birds perch outside the nest box are all important considerations.

  • This mount has bendable legs that make the phone sit flat on uneven surfaces and even grip onto ledges and pipes.

  • Take in emerald-peak panoramas via rock ledges atop the 2,900-foot Speckled Mountain, accessible on routes like the eight-mile Bickford Brook Trail.

  • Later on Thursday, Hopkins clarified—again, it seems likely an agent or two talked him down from the ledge—that he wasn’t seriously considering an end to his career.

  • The only catch—he never mined a thing and the tunnel led to a scenic ledge.

  • On a ledge is a small TV set and a cabinet with a few sad possessions spilling out.

  • In another chamber there was a hole inside of a ledge we put our hands through.

  • We moved slowly down slippery stones, careful not to focus on the ledge to our right that dropped down to the mountain base.

  • And of course Baelish materialized (at just the right moment) to save Sansa and coax Lysa away from the ledge.

  • As he was toiling slowly up a narrow, rocky pass, he suddenly saw an Indian's head peering over the ledge.

  • Crawl up there again, Sarge, and look straight down at the first ledge from the bottom.

  • I "shinned," and reached the ledge with a good deal of skin peeled from various parts of my person.

  • He is dancing on an outcrop (that means a ledge of rock) in the middle of Australia at six o'clock before breakfast.

  • A very shallow sheet of water flowed down over a broad but nowise precipitous ledge of rock into the valley beneath.