Wedge

(noun.) something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them.

(noun.) (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole.

(noun.) any shape that is triangular in cross section.

(verb.) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; 'I squeezed myself into the corner'.

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• When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Can you explain how this is a wedge? 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• By means of a wedge, the stump is split. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The transverse channel through the breech is tapered, and the sliding breech block X is slightly wedge-shaped to fit tightly therein. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Put it in just as fast as you can and wedge it tight and lash it fast. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Excluded, Germany became a wedge that needed only the impact of the Hunnish hammer to split up the whole system. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Perhaps the most universal form of a wedge is our common pin. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He stood wedged in the forum, imperfectly hearing a distant speaker. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I should have died even then but for that as my sword was tight wedged in the breastbone of a Dator of the First Born. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Instantly with the shock of impact I reversed my engine, but my prow was wedged in the hole it had made in the battleship's stern. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• For a brief time under Odenathus, and then under his widow Zenobia, Palmyra was a considerable state, wedged between the two empires. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Small holes a few inches apart are cut along a certain length of rock, into which steel wedges are inserted. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A chisel and an ax are illustrations of wedges. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Give me some wedges, _viejo_. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• These were extra wedges in case they should be needed. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Take thy time and do it well, wedging all securely with the wooden wedges and lashing the grenades firmly. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The old man was finishing whittling the last of a pile of wedges he had copied from a model Robert Jordan had given him. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Take thy time and do it well, wedging all securely with the wooden wedges and lashing the grenades firmly. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• You see we have been wedging one leg with paper. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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