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Definition of Ledgy
1. a. Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef; as, a ledgy island.
Definition of Ledgy
1. Adjective. Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ledgy
1. abounding in ledges [adj LEDGIER, LEDGIEST] - See also: ledges
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ledgy
Literary usage of Ledgy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1904)
"... which he spread over the ledgy part above described, and that afterwards a
person, who was mending the road for the town, removed some material, ..."
2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1876)
"... which he spread over the ledgy part above described, and that afterwards a
person, who was mending the road for the town, removed some material, ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1914)
"There is a second blunder in the statement that the southerly boundary line
is "the ledgy shore and creek." The judge of the Land Court found that there was ..."
4. The White Mountains: A Guide to the Peaks, Passes, and Ravines of the White by Moses Foster Sweetser (1876)
"From a ledgy outlook (which affords a fine view of the village and some distant
mountains to the S. over Campton Hill, among others the top of the Southern ..."
5. Provisional Report Upon the Water-power of Maine by Maine Hydrographic Survey, Walter Wells (1868)
"The Sebasticook river falls twenty feet in passing through the town ; has a ledgy
bottom at points, and could, doubtless, be damned, and would yield large ..."
6. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1900)
"V. caespitosum, but it covers acres of ledgy slopes. Unlike the latter species,
however, the mountain bilberry rarely grows at low altitudes. ..."
7. History of Whitingham from Its Organization to the Present Time by Leonard Brown (1886)
"These are the only high and precipitous hills in the eastern section, but there
are many ledgy cliffs of lesser altitude in different localities ; one near ..."
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