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

Pile :: Pile (n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost..

Gad :: Gad (n.) A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc..

Wedge :: Wedge (n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form..

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.

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..

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

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

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

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

Wedge :: Wedge (n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

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

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

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..

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

Scotch :: Scotch (n.) A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground..

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..

Cuniform :: Cuniform (n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.

Sphenoid :: Sphenoid (n.) A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles. It is the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.

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