a. [f. LEDGE sb. + -Y.] Abounding in or consisting of ledges or ridges of rock.
1779. D. Livermore, in Coll. New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. (1850), VI. 315. This swamp … has some considerable hills and ledgy mountains in it.
1878. Sawtelle, Hist. Townsend (Mass.), 15. It contains ledgy, waste lands, in which are wild ravines and swamps caused by rocky barriers.
1882. Harper’s Mag., LXV. 497/1. The small ledgy island known as ‘the Nubble.’
