noun. A piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.

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noun. Something shaped like a wedge.

noun. A wedge-shaped formation, as in ground warfare.

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noun. Something that intrudes and causes division or disruption.

noun. Something that forces an opening or a beginning.

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noun. An iron golf club with a very slanted face, used to lift the ball sharply upward, as from sand.

noun. A shoe having a heel that extends across the shank to the half sole, forming a continuous undersurface.

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noun. One of the various triangular marks that are the basic structural elements of cuneiform writing symbols.

noun. In snow skiing, the snowplow.

transitive verb. To split or force apart with or as if with a wedge.

transitive verb. To fix in place or tighten with a wedge.

transitive verb. To crowd or squeeze into a limited space.

In forestry, to force by wedges (a tree that is being felled) to topple over.

noun. A pledge; a gage.

noun. In geometry, a prismatoid whose lower base is a rectangle, and upper base a line (sect) parallel to a basal edge.

noun. In ancient oriental archæol., an arrow-headed character, the shape of which was produced by pressing one corner of a solid square wand or the like into soft clay.

noun. A playing-card so trimmed that one end is narrower than the other, so that when a certain part of the pack is turned round it can be withdrawn again at will, no matter how much the pack may be shuffled in the meantime.

noun. A simple machine consisting of a very acute-angled triaugular prism of hard material, which is driven in between objects to be separated, or into anything which is to be split.

noun. A mass resembling a wedge in form; anything in the form of a wedge.

noun. In heraldry, a bearing representing a triangle with one very acute angle—that is, like a pile, but free in the escutcheon instead of being attached to one of its edges.

noun. In Cambridge University, the name given to the man whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos: said to be a designation suggested by the name (Wedgewood) of the man who occupied this place on the first list (1824). Compare wooden spoon, under spoon.

To cleave with a wedge or with wedges; rive.

To drive as a wedge is driven; crowd or compress closely; jam.

To fasten with a wedge or with wedges; fix in the manner of a wedge: as, to wedge on a scythe; to wedge in a rail or a piece of timber.

In ceramics, to cut, divide, and work together (a mass of wet clay) to drive out bubbles and render it plastic, just before placing it on the wheel.

To make into the shape of a wedge; render cuneiform.

To force apart or split off with or as with a wedge.

To force one's way like a wedge.

noun. A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

noun. A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

noun. A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.

noun. Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.

noun. The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

noun. A golf club having an iron head with the face nearly horizontal, used for lofting the golf ball at a high angle, as when hitting the ball out of a sand trap or the rough.

noun. See under Fox.

noun. the portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter.

transitive verb. To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.

transitive verb. To force or drive as a wedge is driven.

transitive verb. To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does.

transitive verb. To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.

transitive verb. To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges.

transitive verb. To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.

noun. One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering (Wikipedia article).

noun. A piece (of food etc.) having this shape.

noun. A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

noun. A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

"MARCIANO: Well, we've been throwing around the term wedge and rope tornados quite a bit."

compensating compound wedge  flying wedge  foxtail wedge  miners' wedge  optical wedge  

diacritic  diacritical mark  heel  sandwich  triangle  

allege  dredge  edge  fledge  hedge  

arc  bit  chunk  cone  crescent  

arrowhead  articulate  batten  batten down  bed  

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