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  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. 




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