wedge : Idioms & Phrases

• (Mach. & Carpentry), a wedge for expanding the split end of a bolt, cotter, dowel, tenon, or other piece, to fasten the end in a hole or mortise and prevent withdrawal. The wedge abuts on the bottom of the hole and the piece is driven down upon it. Fastening by fox wedges is called foxtail wedging.

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• . See Fox wedge, under Fox.

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• noun a wedge used to loft the golf ball over obstacles
  

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• noun a wedge used to get out of sand traps
  

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• (Geom.), the portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter.

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• noun part of the sirloin nearest the rump
  

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• noun a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
  wedge.
  

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• noun any shape that is triangular in cross section
  wedge; cuneus.
  

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Wedge"-formed` adjective

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1. Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.

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• adjective satellite (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base
  cuneate.
  
• adjective shaped like a wedge
  cuneal; cuneiform.
  

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Wedge"-shaped` adjective

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1. Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
2. (Bot.) Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.

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Wedge"-shell` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.

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Wedge"-tailed" adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) 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.

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