wedge

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments)
• a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
• any shape that is triangular in cross section
• put, fix, force, or implant
• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
• a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
• a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
• (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
• something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
• A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers
• A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends
• A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form
• Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form
• The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos
• To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge
• To force or drive as a wedge is driven
• To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does
• To press closely
• To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges
• To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc

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