wedge: meaning and definitions

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.

To fix in place or tighten with a wedge.

To crowd or squeeze into a limited space.

To become lodged or jammed.