wedge

  1. Noun.  One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering (Wikipedia article).
  2. Noun.  A piece (of food etc.) having this shape.
  3. Noun.  (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
  4. Noun.  (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
  5. Noun.  A group of geese or swans when they are in flight in a V formation.
  6. Noun.  (in the plural) Wedge-heeled shoes.
  7. Noun.  (context, colloquial) A quantity of money.
  8. Noun.  (typography, US) = (l, en) .
  9. Noun.  (phonetics) The (l, en) character (IPAchar, <ĘŚ>) , which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
  10. Verb.  To support or secure using a wedge.
  11. Verb.  To force into a narrow gap.
  12. Verb.  To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.

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