What is "wedges"

Usage examples of "wedges".

Not only did splitting up ruin any chance for a convoy to use their wedges for mutual protection, but it also strung the ships out into a space-going shish kabob, presenting the raider with a series of bite-sized morsels from which he could choose whichever looked the tastiest.

The Peep was still moving among the scattering convoy, methodically popping merchie wedges as it went.

Their hair was cut in stiff, narrow wedges and they wore armour assembled from the plates of some kind of tortoise.

Almost a thousand four-squad wedges, of thirty-five to forty soldiers each, on the other hand, actually delayed the moment of rout.