2. To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger Could
not be wedged in more. --Shak.
He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a
snug berth. --Mrs. J. H.
Ewing.
3. To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to
wedge one's way. --Milton.
4. To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a
wedge that is driven into something.
Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.
--Dryden.
5. 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.
6. (Pottery) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work
by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
--Tomlinson.
2. (Geom.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base,
two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge,
and two triangular ends.
3. A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
``Wedges of gold.'' --Shak.
4. Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn
up in such a form.
In warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and
wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton.
5. 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.
[Cant, Cambridge Univ., Eng.] --C. A. Bristed.
{Fox wedge}. (Mach. & Carpentry) See under {Fox}.
{Spherical wedge} (Geom.), the portion of a sphere included
between two planes which intersect in a diameter.