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n.
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
v. t.
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
n.
One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
a.
Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.
v. t.
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
v. t.
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
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Not to be split with wedges.
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Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
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.
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Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
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Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
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Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
n.
An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
v. t.
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
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.
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Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
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n.
Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
v. t.
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
adv.
In the manner of a wedge.
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