Crossword clues for wedged
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wedge \Wedge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wedged; p. pr. & vb. n. Wedging.]
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive. ``My heart, as wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain.''
--Shak.-
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger Could not be wedged in more.
--Shak.He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth.
--Mrs. J. H. Ewing. To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
--Milton.-
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.
--Dryden. To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
(Pottery) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
--Tomlinson.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (en-past of: wedge) 2 (context Internet English) In a web server context, to be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
WordNet
adj. wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth" [syn: impacted]
Usage examples of "wedged".
I They secured the end of the rope to one of the poles wedged like an anchor in the opening of the tunnel that led to the crystal cavern, and Craig abseiled down the rope to the water at the bottom of the shaft once more.
The man lurched back, one hand grasping, then pulling at the adze wedged in his shoulder.
This is a thirteenth-century addition to the church, and is of irregular shape, as it is wedged in, as it were, between the apsidal chapel on the east side of the transept and the south wall of the choir aisle.
He wedged the rubberized flashlight between two outcroppings of aragonite, and in its beam attached the mask to the air tank, grunting with pain as he tightened the connections with his flayed fingers.
BODY, An American scientist studying Archaeon marine organisms was killed yesterday when his one-man submersible became wedged in an undersea canyon of the Galapagos Rift.
The guerrillas had placed an antipersonnel mine on the inside floor with a strong, biforked branch wedged between the door handle and the pressure switch of the mine.
Watched and smiled at by Mary, Mrs Botham limped back to her seather inviolable armchair, wedged into the corner by the fire with toy flames.
Mud pies decorated with caragana pods, the broken crockery and rusty spoons they had collected, the wooden boxes wedged between the tree trunks for cupboards.
This gonne-chambre was wedged in firmly by a chock of elm wood beaten in with a mallet.
Sarasper said gloomily, clambering past the stoutly wedged boat onto a bare finger of dock beyond.
I stood facing the Stockturm, steep brick wall pinned against the sky, and it was only by chance, in response to a faint stirring of boredom, that I wedged my drumsticks in between the masonry and the iron mounting of the door.
Bar was on Southwest Alder, a narrow building of chocolate-brown brick wedged between Esparto fashion store and a glossy new marble-front bank.
Someone shoved at me, and I was wedged in between two fattish men who smelled of sweat and curry.
Tars Tarkas went in advance and as I reached the first of the horizontal bars I drew the ladder up after me and, handing it to him, he carried it a hundred feet further aloft, where he wedged it safely between one of the bars and the side of the shaft.
Her eyes fellon the opened army envelop wedged between the wall and the carriage clock.