Answer to "Ridge; crest" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CHINE , but the solution may also be ARETE which is one of the most recent solution (1990 in New York Times).

Ridge; crest crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer Likelyness Letters
CHINE50 %5
ARETE50 %5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Ridge; crest

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.
  • chine
  • arete
  • crista
  • crested
  • comb
  • cresting
  • ridged
  • combatively
  • combed
  • cuesta
  • nunatak
  • ridgetop

Crossword Answer definitions

CHINE noun
  1. The top of a ridge.
  2. The spine of an animal.
  3. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  4. A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
  5. A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
  6. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
  7. The back of the blade on a scythe.
CHINE verb
  1. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
  2. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
CHINE noun
  1. (Southern England) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
CHINE verb
  1. To crack, split, fissure, break.

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