1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Wedged, cuneatus.

1722 A. Philips Briton i. i. 2 In Chariots, fang'd with Scythes, they scour the Field: Drive through our wedged Batalions with a Whirl.

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 307 The Key-Stone in the middle is wedged, and, as we say, Swallow-tail'd.

1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming iii. xxv With..arrowy frize, and wedged ravelin.

1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio Nov. 561 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.

1827 Encycl. Londinensis XXII. 806/2 Two fore-teeth, of which the upper are wedged, the lower are acute.

1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 4 Or hark, Where yon wedged line the Nestor leads, Steering north with raucous cry Through tracts and provinces of sky.

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 336 The cover being secured by wedged buttons worked with a spanner.

1891 Cent. Dict. Wedged, in zool., wedge-shaped; cuneiform or cuneate: as, a wedged bone; the wedged tail of a bird.

1903 in 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.

1967 M. 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.