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Added 8 October 2026

ledge

/lɛd͡ʒ/ noun

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A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.
A shelf on which articles may be laid.
A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.

verb

To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc).

noun

Alternative form of lege (“a legend; a person held in high regard”).

noun

A provincial or territorial legislature building.
A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.

Origin

From Middle English legge, from Old English leċġ (“bar, crossbeam”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggju (“layer, strip, ledge, rung, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjō (“layer, stratum”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”). Cognate with West Frisian lêch (“a layer of sheaves on a threshing floor”), Dutch leg (“layer”), German Low German Legg (“wrinkle, fold, flat layer, stratum”), Middle High German legge, lecke (“position, layer, stratum, tier; pleat, hem”).

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