wedgingn.
/ˈwɛdʒɪŋ/ 1.
a. The action of driving in a wedge or wedges, or of fixing or cleaving by this means; the condition of being thus fixed.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > other processes
framing1440
riving?1440
traversing1524
wedging1678
furring1679
cocking1710
bearding1711
battening1788
rossing1839
thicknessing1870
splining1901
parting off1905
reconditioning1932
stress grading1936
spindle moulding1979
society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > [noun] > with other specific fastenings
chaininga1387
hookingc1430
clasping1460
spanning1527
buckling1625
wedging1678
fishing1798
screw-bolting1831
slinging1833
stapling1898
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > [noun] > making fast or securing > in position > between two bodies or surfaces
jamming1769
wedging1893
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 98 They drive a Wedge so far in the kerf as they dare..and so provide the Saw a freer and easier passage through the Stuff: This Wedging they continue so oft as they find occasion.
1825 W. Hamilton Hand-bk. Terms Arts & Sci. Foxtail wedging.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 976 Fox Tail Wedging, a method of fixing a tenon in a mortise by splitting the end of the tenon and inserting a projecting wedge, then entering the tenon into the mortise, and driving it home.
1893 J. Tuckey tr. B. Hatschek Amphioxus 140 We saw the oval notochord transverse section still wedged in between the cells of the mesenteron... In the region of the later segments we still find the former condition of the wedging.
b. concrete. A wedge-shaped piece or pieces of some hard material driven in for tightening or securing.
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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for other specific purposes
screen cloth1603
wadding1627
heading1650
fusive1678
graving stuff1702
pounce1728
railing1740
retarder1753
seating1790
shelving1817
bending1823
shafting1825
wedging1825
rubber sheet1842
facing1843
piston packing1857
sheathing1859
screeding1864
paint1875
sleeving1923
landfill1969
presoak1969
society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > wedge
horsec1400
forelock1514
quoin1570
wedge1678
coin1704
wedging1825
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 337 The wheels are fixed on the shaft by means of a wedging of hard wood, driven in all round.
2. Geology. The flaking off (of rock, etc.), as if by the operation of a wedge.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [noun] > erosion of specific features
planation1877
lateritization1882
wedging1882
laterization1890
peneplanation1899
overdeepening1901
karsting1921
laterizing1929
panplanation1933
pedimentation1940
pediplanation1942
karstification1958
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vii. 928 Their naked precipices are kept bare and steep by the wedging off of successive slices of rock along lines of joint.
3. Sport. (See quot. 1897.)
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Lutra (otter) > excrement of
spraintinga1425
spraintsa1425
swaging1590
swage1834
wedging1897
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 583 Spraint, the excrement of the otter; also called wedging.
4. Geology. With out: the narrowing of a stratum or the like to the point of extinction. Cf. wedge v.1 6.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > position or direction of strata > narrowing
wedging1819
pinch and swell1916
lensing1923
pinch-out1928
1819 J. Forbes Geol. Land's-End District (1822) 21 At one point of this natural section, an instructive example of what is called by geologists the wedging out of a bed, is observable.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 283 Wedging out, cropping or thinning out.
Compounds
attributive, as wedging joint; wedging crib n., wedging curb n. Mining (see crib n. 12 and curb n. 10).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > pit supports
yoking1653
set1830
crib1839
tub1839
wedging crib1839
cribbing1841
ring crib1849
tack1849
tymp1883
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 972 Three kinds of cribs are employed; called wedging, spiking, and main cribs.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 973 The flange for the wedging joint is best turned inwards.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 190 Wedging-curb or Wedging-crib, Eng. A curb used to make a water-tight packing between the tubbing in a shaft and the rock-walls, by means of split deals, moss, and wedges, driven in between the curb and the rock.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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ˈwedging
ˈwedging n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with clay > [noun] > specific processes
wedging1686
puddling1790
pugging1843
1686 [see main sense].
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1011 The first of which is called the potter's sloping [1860 (ed. 5) slapping] or wedging.
1860 W. White All round Wrekin xxvii. 297 The clay..is..thrown into the ‘pug-mill’, or ‘wedging-mill’, a large upright cylinder, in which it is forced or screwed gradually downwards, and extruded at the bottom in a continuous cubical mass.
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