| Wedge (wedge) |
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| Wedge |
| [OE. wegge, AS.
wecg; akin to D. wig, wigge, OHG. wecki, G.
weck a (wedge-shaped) loaf, Icel. veggr, Dan.
vægge, Sw. vigg, and probably to Lith. vagis a
peg. Cf. Wig |
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.
A solid of five sides, having a
rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge,
and two triangular ends.
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike
form.
Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of
troops drawn up in such a form.
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.
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To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or
as with a wedge] to rive.
To force or drive as a wedge is
driven.
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge
does; as, to wedge one's way.
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the
manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
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.
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike
masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles,
etc.
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