wedge
Nouns
- (n) any shape that is triangular in cross section cuneus, wedge shape,
- (n) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine sandwich, zep, submarine, torpedo, bomber, hero,
- (n) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation hacek,
- (n) a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe wedge heel,
- (n) (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- (n) something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
- (n) a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object chock,
Verbs
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(v) put, fix, force, or implant
- lodge a bullet in the table
- stick your thumb in the crack
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(v) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- I squeezed myself into the corner