(countable, uncountable) 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.
(countable, uncountable) A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
(countable, uncountable) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
(countable, uncountable) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
(archaic, countable, uncountable) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
(collective, countable, uncountable) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
(countable, uncountable) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
(countable, uncountable) One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) An ingot.
(broadly, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Silver or items made of silver collectively.
(British, broadly, colloquial, countable, uncountable) A quantity of money.
(US, countable, regional, uncountable) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
(countable, uncountable) One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
(US, countable, uncountable) Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
(countable, uncountable) Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
(countable, uncountable) Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
(countable, uncountable) Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
(countable, uncountable) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
(countable, uncountable) A wedge tornado.
(countable, uncountable) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).

(transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
(ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
(transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
(transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
(informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
(transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
(transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
(transitive) To shape into a wedge.

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