n. a long, narrow strip (of trees).
- 1691  (1929)  This day we pitcht again & got through ye woods[,] this ledge not being above 30 Miles through. . . .
- 1754  (1907)  Came to a ledge of Poplars and sweet water.
- 1773  (1908)  We proceeded . . . travelling over barren ground [prairie]: pitched at a small ledge of willows and a few straggling poplars.