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WEDGE
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English
English : from the Old English personal name Wegga.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : nickname from Middle English wigge ‘beetle’, ‘bug’.English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of fancy breads baked in rounds and then divided up into wedge-shaped slices, Middle English wigge, from Middle Dutch wigge ‘wedge(-shaped cake)’.
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Irish
Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuáin ‘descendant of Cuán’, a byname from a diminutive of cú ‘hound’, ‘dog’.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cadhain ‘descendant of Cadhan’, a byname from cadhan ‘barnacle goose’.Irish : Anglicized form of Ó Comhgháin ‘descendant of Comghán’, a Connacht name usually Anglicized as Coen.Irish : variant of Quinn.English : metonymic occupational name for a minter of money, or a derogatory nickname for a miser, from Middle English coin ‘piece of money’ (earlier the die used to stamp money, from Latin cuneus ‘wedge’).
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English : habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from Cēol, an Old English personal name, or alternatively from an unattested Old Scandinavian word, kæl ‘wedge-shaped piece of land’, + ēg ‘island’, ‘area of dry land in a marsh’.Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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Spear; Wedge-shaped Object; Triangular Shaped Piece of Land
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English
English : variant of Warwick.English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of warrocks, wedges of timber that were used to tighten the joints in a scaffold.
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English
English : probably a perhaps variant of Wedgewood; otherwise a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
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English
English : from Middle English clevere ‘one who cleaves’ (a derivative of Old English clēofan ‘to split’), hence an occupational name for someone who split wood into planks using a wedge rather than a saw, or possibly for a butcher.English : topographic name from Middle English cleve ‘bank’, ‘slope’ (from the dative of Old English clif) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.Americanized spelling of German Kliewer or Klüver (see Kluver).
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English
English : habitational name from Wedgwood in Staffordshire.
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Pale Bridge
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Australian, British, English, German, Hebrew, Jamaican, Scottish, Spanish
Scottish Form of Isabel Consecrated to God; Pledged to God; God's Promise; God is My Oath; Variant of Elizabeth
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Arabic, Muslim
Image
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Hindu
Being near, The Lord Saibaba message
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English American
beverage brandy used as a given name.
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Tamil
Dhan Laxmi | தந லகà¯à®·à¯à®®à¯€Â
God of currency
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Welsh
Blessed truth.
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Tamil
Chiranjeevini | சிரஂஜீவீநீ
Immortal
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Hindu, Indian
Lord Nagaraja
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English
English : variant of Crass.
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n.
One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
adv.
In the manner of a wedge.
n.
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
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Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
v. t.
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
imp. & p. p.
of Wedge
v. t.
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
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.
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Not to be split with wedges.
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Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
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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.
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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Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
v. t.
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
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Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
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Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
v. t.
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
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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 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.