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- verb Present participle of
ridge .
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Examples
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Earthing up, sometimes called ridging up, is putting earth round the collar, or crown, of plants (see Booklet No. 1, page 15).
Chapter 5 1976
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'When a boat is well built, properly trimmed, and not deep laden, the waves in a strong gale, when she is going large, seem always to slip from beneath her -- which appears strange to a landsman -- and this is what is called ridging, in sea phrase.
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It can be converted to perform different functions such as ridging, tilling and cultivating.
1. Overview 1991
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He described conditions outside the Healy's bridge much like the surface of the moon: nearly 100 percent snow coverage, occasional ridging and "lots of rubble all around."
Cordova, Alaska Snowfall Leaves Town Struggling To Dig Out 2012
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Nestling close by, a big mocha-toned nut with fine top-to-bottom ridging on its shell appears to have escaped the foraging rodents.
Sandy, Bedfordshire Derek Niemann 2010
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Her upper arms were ridging with tubes of muscle as she tried to work the pair of scissors from the sewing box between the strands of tape wrapped around her wrists.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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However, the latest forecasts for the MJO suggest that it will revert back to a configuration that favors the opposite -- East coast upper-level ridging, or a northward displacement of the jet stream, a pattern we've seen many times in the last several months.
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Her upper arms were ridging with tubes of muscle as she tried to work the pair of scissors from the sewing box between the strands of tape wrapped around her wrists.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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By Monday, the clockwise flow associated with the East Coast ridging is expected to bring upper-level winds that are blowing toward the Southeast U.S. from the Atlantic Ocean (shown at right).
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So if indeed the Cape Verde disturbances continue to show the potential they have recently, an MJO that tries to coax the global weather pattern into East Coast upper-level ridging is something we need to watch carefully.
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In potato production, piling soil or mulch around the stems of of row potatoes so the wind or water-borne potato blight spores have farther to travel to get to the tuber, giving fungicide treatments a longer window of opportunity to eliminate the pathogen.
June 12, 2010