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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.
a.
Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
v. t.
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
v. t.
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
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.
n.
Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
v. t.
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
v. t.
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
a.
Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
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Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
n.
Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
n.
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
n.
An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
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of Wedge
a.
Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
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Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.
n.
One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
v. t.
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
a.
Not to be split with wedges.
adv.
In the manner of a wedge.
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