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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ledge \Ledge\ (l[e^]j), noun [Akin to AS. licgan to lie, Icel. liggja; cf. Icel. l["o]gg the ledge or rim at the bottom of a cask. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] [Formerly written {lidge}.]
1. A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
2. A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
3. A layer or stratum.
The lowest ledge or row should be of stone. --Sir H. Wotton.
4. (Mining) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
5. (Shipbuilding) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ledge
noun: a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water [syn: {shelf}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "ledge": band, bank, beam-end, bed, bedding, belt, billiard table, board, border, bordure, bowling green, brim, brink, brow, coast, coral heads, corbel, couche, course, dead flat, dead level, deck, earth, edge, esplanade, featheredge, flange, flat, flatland, floor, frame, fringe, gallery, gradin, gradino, ground, hem, hob, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, ironbound coast, labellum, labium, labrum, layer, ledges, lee shore, level, level line, level plane, limb, limbus, lip, list, mantel, mantelshelf, mantle, marge, margin, mean sea level, measures, overhang, overlayer, overstory, parterre, pitfall, plain, plane, platform, prairie, predella, projection, quicksands, ragged edge, retable, rim, rockbound coast, rocks, sandbank, sandbar, sands, sea level, sea of grass, seam, selvage, shallows, shelf, shoals, shore, shoulder, side, sideline, sill, skirt, stage, step, steppe, story, stratum, substratum, superaltar, superstratum, table, terrace, thickness, tier, topsoil, undercurrent, underlayer, understory, understratum, undertow, verge, water level, zone
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