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Jam :: Jam (v. t.) To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.

Wedge :: Wedge (v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way..

Sphenoid :: Sphenoid (a.) Wedge-shaped; as, a sphenoid crystal..

Impact :: Impact (v. t.) To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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..

Wedgy :: Wedgy (a.) Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.

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

Shiver :: Shiver (n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter..

Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc..

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

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..

Wedge :: Wedge (v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.

Arch Stone :: Arch stone () A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.

Pickaxe :: Pickaxe (n.) A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes..

Wedge :: Wedge (n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends..

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

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

Unwedgeable :: Unwedgeable (a.) Not to be split with wedges.

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

Wedge-tailed :: Wedge-tailed (a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood..

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