Crossword-Solution: WEDGE
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| Wedge | 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. |
| Wedge | n. | A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. |
| Wedge | n. | A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form. |
| Wedge | n. | Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form. |
| Wedge | 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. |
| Wedge | v. t. | To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive. |
| Wedge | v. t. | To force or drive as a wedge is driven. |
| Wedge | v. t. | To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way. |
| Wedge | v. t. | To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something. |
| Wedge | 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. |
| Wedge | v. t. | To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc. |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with WEDGE (5)
White on one side were they painted, And vermilion on the other; Two Kenabeeks or great serpents, Two Ininewug or wedge-men, One great war-club, Pugamaugun, And one slender fish, the Keego, Four round pieces, Ozawabeeks, And three Sheshebwug or ducklings.
Then they fall back and the wedge splits a little, while the rear ones come up the middle to the front.
Beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground.
The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time.
This would lead gradually to the acceptance of "the talented tenth" within the majority community, and they would provide the wedge which would break open the walls of prejudice and discrimination forever.
Quotes with WEDGE (3)
Realize this — your anger with God does not drive a wedge between you and Him. It is your silence that drives the wedge. - Prodigal Life
You spanked me,” she told him.“I did.” He lifted her shoulders high enough to push a wedge pillow under the pad. “And I enjoyed it very much. You have a very spankable ass, no?
Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 146 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).