A wedge is a block of wood that keeps a door propped open, or a problem that pulls people apart, like the jealousy that drove a wedge between two friends.
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
Noun
a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
Noun
something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
Noun
(golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
Noun
a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
Noun
a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation
Noun
a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
Noun
any shape that is triangular in cross section
Verb
squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"
Verb
fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"
n.
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.
n.
A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two
rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular
ends.
n.
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
n.
Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn
up in such a form.
n.
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.
v. t.
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with
a wedge; to rive.
v. t.
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
v. t.
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to
wedge one's way.
v. t.
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of
a wedge that is driven into something.
v. t.
To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a
scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
v. t.
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by
dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
Wedge
In warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.5.
Wedge
Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger Could not be wedged in more.
He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth.3.
Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.5.
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
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
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