ALL meanings of wedging
wedge
W w - noun wedging 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 wedging a piece of anything of like shape: a wedge of pie. 1
- noun wedging a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape. 1
- noun wedging Meteorology. (formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure. 1
- noun wedging something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.: The quarrel drove a wedge into the party organization. 1
- noun wedging Military. (formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy. 1
- noun wedging 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 wedging Optics. optical wedge. 1
- noun wedging haček. 1
- noun wedging Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich. 1
- noun wedging a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel. 1
- verb with object wedging 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 wedging to insert or fix with a wedge. 1
- verb with object wedging to pack or fix tightly: to wedge clothes into a suitcase. 1
- verb with object wedging to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge: He wedged himself through the narrow opening. 1
- verb with object wedging Ceramics. to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles. 1
- verb with object wedging to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw. 1
- verb without object wedging 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 wedging Present participle of wedge. 1