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▪ I. wedged, ppl. a.1|wɛdʒd|
[f. wedge n. and v.1 + -ed.]
Shaped like a wedge.
1552Huloet, Wedged, cuneatus. 1722A. Philips Briton i. i. 2 In Chariots, fang'd with Scythes, they scour the Field: Drive through our wedged Batalions with a Whirl. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 307 The Key-Stone in the middle is wedged, and, as we say, Swallow-tail'd. 1809Campbell Gert. Wyom. iii. xxv, With..arrowy frize, and wedged ravelin. a1813A. Wilson Foresters Wks. (Belfast 1846) 250 Above, around, in numerous flocks are seen Long lines of ducks o'er this their fav'rite scene; Some to the lake in wedged divisions bend. 1827Encycl. Lond. XXII. 806/2 Two fore-teeth, of which the upper are wedged, the lower are acute. 1867Emerson Poems, May-day 29 Or hark, Where yon wedged line the Nestor leads, Steering north with raucous cry Through tracts and provinces of sky. 1874Thearle Naval Archit. 336 The cover being secured by wedged buttons worked with a spanner. 1891Century Dict., Wedged, in zool., wedge-shaped; cuneiform or cuneate: as, a wedged bone; the wedged tail of a bird.
▪ II. wedged, ppl. a.2|wɛdʒd|
[f. wedge v.2 + -ed1.]
Of wet clay: that has been wedged to expel air-bubbles before it is worked.
1903in J. Burnett Useful Toil (1974) iii. 298 From balls of wedged or refined clay he made the pancake-like shapes of clay which he had to use in making the next set of plates. 1967M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World ii. 63 However well pugged or well wedged (hand worked to eliminate air) his clay may be, the ceramic sculptor cannot be certain that it contains no blebs. |