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. [1913 Webster]
To force or drive as a wedge is driven. [1913
Webster] Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger Could not be
wedged in more. --Shak. [1913 Webster] He 's just the sort of man
to wedge himself into a snug berth. --Mrs. J. H. Ewing. [1913
Webster]
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does;
as, to wedge one's way. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the
manner of a wedge that is driven into something. [1913 Webster]
Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast. --Dryden. [1913
Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
(Pottery) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses,
and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
--Tomlinson. [1913 Webster]
English
Verb
wedging- present participle of wedge