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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..

Wedge :: Wedge (v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc..

Gib :: Gib (n.) A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw..

Key :: Key (v. t.) To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

Boottree :: Boottree (n.) An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven..

Cuneated :: Cuneated (a.) wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf..

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..

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

Wedge :: Wedge (n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical..

Wedge :: Wedge (v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive..

Gad :: Gad (n.) A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel.

Pipsissewa :: Pipsissewa (n.) A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also prince's pine..

Cam :: Cam (n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together..

Feather :: Feather (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone..

Cuneated :: Cuneated (a.) Wedge-shape.

Arch :: Arch (n.) A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.

Echelon :: Echelon (n.) An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.

Beetle :: Beetle (v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc..

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

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

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