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Wedge

noun

1.

Any shape that is triangular in cross section. Synonyms: cuneus, wedge shape.

2.

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. Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, zep.

3.

A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation. Synonym: hacek.

4.

A heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe. Synonym: wedge heel.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object. Synonym: chock.

verb

(past & past part. wedged; pres. part. wedging)

1.

Put, fix, force, or implant. Synonyms: deposit, lodge, stick. "Stick your thumb in the crack"

2.

Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space. Synonyms: force, squeeze.

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"Wedge" Quotes from Famous Books

... A wedge of iron is said to have been found in a joint between the stones of the great pyramid. Here, then, at the dawn of historic times iron seems to be making its way among a bronze-using people. The ancient Chaldeans employed iron as an ornament, but not for implements. With them it ...

— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

... edge quart sought flitch match hedge sward bought stitch hatch ledge swarm bright fitch latch wedge thwart plight hitch patch fledge bilge budge fosse breadth twinge bridge judge thong breast print ridge drudge notch cleanse fling hinge grudge blotch friend string ...

— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey

... heard the stroke of the hatchet, hewing down the trees of the forest. As we came nearer, traces of destruction marked the presence of civilized man; the road was strewn with shattered boughs; trunks of trees, half consumed by fire, or cleft by the wedge, were still standing in the track we were following. We continued to proceed till we reached a wood in which all the trees seemed to have been suddenly struck dead; in the height of summer their boughs ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... room to lie down, or ruminate standing without rubbing shoulders with a restless neighbour, which leaves him little to do beyond riding round occasionally, to keep his "boys" at their posts, and himself alert and ready for emergencies. But a Chinaman's idea of watching cattle is to wedge them into a solid body, and hold them huddled together like a mob of frightened sheep, riding incessantly round them and forcing back every beast that looks as though it might extricate itself from the tangle, and galloping after any that do escape ...

— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn

... know that the spot where it occurs was, at the time it was formed, far out at sea, covered by the clear water of mid ocean; and when we find that this limestone grows in certain directions earthy and impure, and that layers of shale and sandstone, thin at first, but gradually thickening out in a wedge-shape form, come in between its beds, we know that in those directions we are traveling toward the shore lines of that sea whence the water was receiving from time to time supplies of ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 • Various

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