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noun
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.
EXPANDsomething 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, especially out of sand traps and high grass.
8.
Optics. optical wedge.
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10.
Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich.
11.
COLLAPSEa wedge heel or shoe with such a heel.
verb (used with object)
12.
to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often followed 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.
EXPANDCeramics. to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.
17.
COLLAPSEto fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw.
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Wedging
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
verb (used without object)
18.
to force a way like a wedge (usually followed by in, into, through, etc.): The box won't wedge into such a narrow space.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English wegge (noun), Old English wecg; cognate with dialectal German Weck (Old High German wecki), Old Norse veggr
before 900; Middle English wegge (noun), Old English wecg; cognate with dialectal German Weck (Old High German wecki), Old Norse veggr
Related forms
wedge·like, adjective
un·wedge, verb (used with object), -wedged, -wedg·ing.
Synonyms
14. cram, jam, stuff, crowd, squeeze.
14. cram, jam, stuff, crowd, squeeze.
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Word Origin & History
wedge
O.E. wecg "a wedge," from P.Gmc. *wagjaz (cf. O.N. veggr, M.Du. wegge, Du. wig, O.H.G. weggi "wedge," Ger. Weck "wedge-shaped bread roll"), of unknown origin. The verb is recorded from 1440. Wedgie in the underwear prank sense is attested by 1970s. Wedge issue is attested from 1999.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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