ALL meanings of wedged
wedged
W w - adjective wedged having the shape of a wedge. 1
- noun wedged 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, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def 3b). 1
- noun wedged a piece of anything of like shape: a wedge of pie. 1
- noun wedged a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape. 1
- noun wedged Meteorology. (formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure. 1
- noun wedged something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.: The quarrel drove a wedge into the party organization. 1
- noun wedged Military. (formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy. 1
- noun wedged Golf. a club with an iron head the face of which is nearly horizontal, for lofting the ball, especially out of sand traps and high grass. 1
- noun wedged Optics. optical wedge. 1
- noun wedged haček. 1
- noun wedged Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich. 1
- noun wedged a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel. 1
- verb with object wedged to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often followed by open, apart, etc.): to wedge open a log. 1
- verb with object wedged to insert or fix with a wedge. 1
- verb with object wedged to pack or fix tightly: to wedge clothes into a suitcase. 1
- verb with object wedged to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge: He wedged himself through the narrow opening. 1
- verb with object wedged Ceramics. to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles. 1
- verb with object wedged to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw. 1
- verb without object wedged to force a way like a wedge (usually followed by in, into, through, etc.): The box won't wedge into such a narrow space. 1
- noun wedged Simple past tense and past participle of wedge. 1
- verb wedged (Internet) In a web-server context, to be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. 0