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Water Lettuce :: Water lettuce () A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves..

Wedge :: Wedge (n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form..

Wedge-shaped :: Wedge-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.

Cotter :: Cotter (n.) A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key..

Lug :: Lug (n.) A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc..

Cuniform :: Cuniform (a.) Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded..

Wedgewise :: Wedgewise (adv.) In the manner of a wedge.

Glut :: Glut (n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

Key :: Key (n.) A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock..

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.

Chock :: Chock (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask..

Cow :: Cow (n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock..

Wedged :: Wedged (imp. & p. p.) of Wedg.

Arch Brick :: Arch brick () A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.

Quoin :: Quoin (n.) A wedgelike piece of stone, wood metal, or other material, used for various purposes.

Cuniform :: Cuniform (a.) Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them..

Arch :: Arch (n.) Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed..

Voussoir :: Voussoir (n.) One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.

Spall :: Spall (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface..

Quoin :: Quoin (n.) To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.

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