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wedging |
1 definition found 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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