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 ) .

a piece of anything of like shape

a wedge of pie.

a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape.

Meteorology . (formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure.

something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.

The quarrel drove a wedge into the party organization.

Military . (formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy.

Golf . a club with an iron head the face of which is nearly horizontal, for lofting the ball, esp. out of sand traps and high grass.

Optics . optical wedge.

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Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island . a hero sandwich.

a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel.

to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often fol. by open, apart, etc.)

to wedge open a log.

to insert or fix with a wedge.

to pack or fix tightly

to wedge clothes into a suitcase.

to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge

He wedged himself through the narrow opening.

Ceramics . to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.

to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw.

to force a way like a wedge (usually fol. by in, into, through, etc.)

The box won't wedge into such a narrow space.

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