Wedge Meaning in Spanish

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1. (v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
2. (v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
3. (v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge ones way.
4. (n.) 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.
5. (n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
6. (n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
7. (v. t.) 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.
8. (v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
9. (v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
10. (n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
11. (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

1. () Alt. of gage

1. () A friction gear wheel with wedge-shaped circumferential grooves.

1. (a.) Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.

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

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

1. (a.) 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.

1. (n.) An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Wedge