wedge Definition

wedge
noun

1. A piece of solid wood, metal or other material, tapering to a thin edge, that is driven into eg wood to split it, pushed into a narrow gap between moving parts to immobilize them, or used to hold a door open, etc.
2. Anything shaped like a wedge, usually cut from something circular.

Thesaurus: chunk, lump, block, piece.
3. A shoe heel in the form of a wedge, tapering towards the sole.
4. golf.
A club with a steeply angled wedge-shaped head for lofting the ball.

verb wedged, wedging

1. To fix or immobilize something in position with, or as if with, a wedge.
2. To thrust, insert or squeeze, or be pushed or squeezed like a wedge.

Example: wedged herself into the corner
Thesaurus: force, jam, squeeze, lodge, thrust, cram, crowd, ram, stuff, push, pack; Antonym: dislodge, take out, space out.

Derivative: wedged
adj

Derivative: wedgy
adj

Idiom: drive a wedge between people

To cause ill-feeling or division between people who were formerly friendly or united.

Idiom: the thin end of the wedge

Something that looks like the small beginning of a significant, usually unwanted, development.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon wecg.