wedge

[[t]wɛdʒ[/t]]

n. v. wedged, wedg•ing

1) 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

Compare machine 2), b)

2) a piece of anything of like shape:

a wedge of pie[/ex]

3) a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape

4) something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.:

The quarrel drove a wedge between them[/ex]

5) spo an iron-headed golf club with a nearly horizontal face, used for lofting the ball

6) clo a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel

7) mil aV-shaped formation of infantry or cavalry, with the point directed toward the enemy

8) cvs

flying wedge

9) dial. Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich

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

11) to insert or fix with a wedge

12) to pack or fix tightly; stuff

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

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

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Etymology: bef. 900; ME wegge (n.), OE wecg, c. OS weggi, OHG wecki, ON veggr