Definitions for wedges

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wedges wedge

Spelling: [wej]

IPA: /wɛdʒ/

Wedges is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in wedges (deegsw).

Definitions for wedges

noun

1. 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).
2. a piece of anything of like shape:
3. a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape.
4. Meteorology. (formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure.
5. something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.:
6. Military. (formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy.
7. 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.
8. Optics. optical wedge.
9. haček.
10. Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich.
11. a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel.

verb (used with object)

1. to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often followed by open, apart, etc.):
2. to insert or fix with a wedge.
3. to pack or fix tightly:
4. to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge:
5. Ceramics. to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.
6. to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw.

verb (used without object)

1. to force a way like a wedge (usually followed by in, into, through, etc.):

Origin of wedges

before 900; Middle English wegge (noun), Old English wecg; cognate with dialectal German Weck (Old High German wecki), Old Norse veggr

Examples for wedges

Jenny Packham polka-dotted frock with a high-waisted elastic waistband and wedge heels.

A decade ago, gays were a wedge issue used by Republicans to energize the base.

The hair, of course, must be brought over the wedge in an even ribbon.

She found a wedge of wood at the other side and drew it out.

There must be more giving of ourselves if that wedge is to be widened in the disc.

In recent years there have been many issues driving a wedge between Riyadh and Washington.

Bevin, along with state and national Democrats, delight in trying to drive a wedge between McConnell and Paul.

But he thought he might bulldog the case for a while and find a wedge for a lawsuit.

Here they stood in the form of a wedge; there they turned the Normans, and put them to flight.

He's a good enough fellow—but he'll drive a wedge into our life.