Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Wedged"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wedge \Wedge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wedged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wedging}.]
1. To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a
wedge; to rive. ``My heart, as wedged with a sigh, would
rive in twain.'' --Shak.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

wedged
adj : wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth" [syn: {impacted}]


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