[wej] 
noun, verb, wedged, wedg⋅ing.| 1. | a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def. 3b). |
| 2. | a piece of anything of like shape: a wedge of pie. |
| 3. | a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape. |
| 4. | Meteorology. (formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure. |
| 5. | something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.: The quarrel drove a wedge into the party organization. |
| 6. | Military. (formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy. |
| 7. | Golf. a club with an iron head the face of which is nearly horizontal, for lofting the ball, esp. out of sand traps and high grass. |
| 8. | Optics. optical wedge. |
| 9. | haček. |
| 10. | Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich. |
| 11. | a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel. |
| 12. | to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often fol. by open, apart, etc.): to wedge open a log. |
| 13. | to insert or fix with a wedge. |
| 14. | to pack or fix tightly: to wedge clothes into a suitcase. |
| 15. | to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge: He wedged himself through the narrow opening. |
| 16. | Ceramics. to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles. |
| 17. | to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw. |
| 18. | to force a way like a wedge (usually fol. by in, into, through, etc.): The box won't wedge into such a narrow space. |
| wedge (wěj) n.
v. tr.
To become lodged or jammed. [Middle English wegge, from Old English wecg.] |
