- (v.t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
- (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.) 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.
- (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 press closely; to fix or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
- (v.t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges or as with a wedge; to rive.
- (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 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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