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ledge

(lĕj)

1. A horizontal projection forming a narrow shelf on a wall.

2. A cut or projection forming a shelf on a cliff or rock wall.

3. An underwater ridge or rock shelf.

4. A level of rock-bearing ore; a vein.

[Middle English, crossbar, probably from leggen, to lay, from Old English lecgan; see legh- in Indo-European roots.]

ledg′y adj.

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Loving wife of Ledgy, loving mother of Paul and Eileen, mother-in-law of W i l f a n d K a t h y , grandmother to Kerry, Jamie, Karl and Paul and great-grandmother to David, Elliot, Ellis and Ruby.

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Southwest and uphill from me only half a mile is a ledgy outlook above where the local mother bobcat has her kittens every spring--a few hundred yards from the cleft in a pile of rocks in which, every other February, a mama bear gives birth to cubs.