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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Sphene :: Sphene (n.) A mineral found usually in thin, wedge-shaped crystals of a yellow or green to black color. It is a silicate of titanium and calcium; titanite..

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..

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 fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place..

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..

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

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

Entrance :: Entrance (n.) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line..

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

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.

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