Wedge ¹

Definition: 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.

Wedge ²

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

Wedge ³

Definition: A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.

Wedge ⁴

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

Wedge ⁵

Definition: 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

Wedge ⁶

Definition: To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.

Wedge ⁷

Definition: To force or drive as a wedge is driven.

Wedge ⁸

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

Wedge ⁹

Definition: 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.

Wedge ¹⁰

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

wedge ¹¹

Definition: a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

wedge ¹²

Definition: something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them

wedge ¹³

Definition: (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole

wedge ¹⁴

Definition: a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe

wedge ¹⁵

Definition: a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation

wedge ¹⁶

Definition: 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

wedge ¹⁷

Definition: any shape that is triangular in cross section

wedge ¹⁸

Definition: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"

wedge ¹⁹

Definition: fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"