A piece of wood, metal, or other hard material, thick at one end and tapering to a thin edge at the other; chiefly used as a tool operated by…

(See quot.)

A wedge-shaped tool used for cleaving and riving staves, shingles, etc. It has a handle in the plane of the blade, set at right angles to the back.

A small iron or wooden wedge; (in later use) esp. one that holds the ring of a scythe's handles in place.

In various technical contexts. The piston or plunger of a pump. Obsolete.

(See quot. 1854.)

A wedge of wood or iron (see quots.).

A machine designed to drill a straight line of holes in rock, used in the process of breaking up and removing rock from its bed.

= froe, n.