ledge

A horizontal projection forming a narrow shelf on a wall.

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

An underwater ridge or rock shelf.

A level of rock-bearing ore; a vein.

To allege.

A shelf on which articles may be placed; anything which resembles such a shelf; a flat rim or projection; as, the ledge of a window; a ledge of earth on the inner side of a parapet.

Specifically— In arch.: A small horizontal molding of rectangular profile. A string-course.

In joinery, a piece against which something rests, as the side of a rebate against which a door or shutter is stopped, or a projecting fillet serving the same purpose as the stop of a door, or the fillet which confines a window-frame in its place.

In ship-building, a. piece of the deck-frame of a ship, lying between the deck-beams.

A rail of a chair.