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- noun The
crest that extends along the highest contours of aridge .
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Examples
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I used the C-4 to blow several large trees to open an area large enough to land on a ridgetop.
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When I left the truck, winds were gusting to 45 mph and all over the map … on the ridgetop.
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When I left the truck, winds were gusting to 45 mph and all over the map … on the ridgetop.
Trail Cams Lie (and Three More Lessons from a Great Deer) 2009
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I used the C-4 to blow several large trees to open an area large enough to land on a ridgetop.
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KEMPTON, Pa. — Bird-watchers at a ridgetop preserve in eastern Pennsylvania counted a record number of migrating bald eagles this fall, another sign of the species' remarkable comeback following a century of decline.
Record Number Of Eagles In Sanctuary Hints At Species Comeback The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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The weather cooperated, with plenty of days of northwesterly winds that helped push migrants closer to the ridgetop.
Eagles Soaring: Record Number In Sanctuary Hints At Species Comeback AP 2010
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For example, two Navajo friends named King Tutt and Paul Shorty staked a claim on a ridgetop where VCA was already ensconced, assuming that where there was a known deposit, more uranium must lurk nearby.
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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KEMPTON, Pa. — Bird-watchers at a ridgetop preserve in eastern Pennsylvania counted a record number of migrating bald eagles this fall, another sign of the species' remarkable comeback following a century of decline.
Eagles Soaring: Record Number In Sanctuary Hints At Species Comeback AP 2010
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More recently, VCA had plucked the rights to a ridgetop across a broad valley from the Carrizos.
Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010
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KEMPTON, Pa. — Bird-watchers at a ridgetop preserve in eastern Pennsylvania counted a record number of migrating bald eagles this fall, another sign of the species' remarkable comeback following a century of decline.
Record Number Of Eagles In Sanctuary Hints At Species Comeback The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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