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.
Something shaped like a wedge: a wedge of pie.
Downstate New York See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.
A wedge-shaped formation, as in ground warfare.
Something that intrudes and causes division or disruption: His nomination drove a wedge into party unity.
Something that forces an opening or a beginning: a wedge in the war on poverty.
Meteorology See ridge.
Sports An iron golf club with a very slanted face, used to lift the ball, as from sand.
One of the triangular characters of cuneiform writing.
To split or force apart with or as if with a wedge.