A mass of metal; as a wedge of gold or silver. Joshua 7:21.

A piece of metal, particularly iron, thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocksThis is one of the five mechanical powers. A like piece of wood is by some persons called a wedge, or a glut.

Something in the form of a wedge. Sometimes bodies of troops are drawn up in the form of a wedge.

To cleave with a wedge; to rive.

To drive as a wedge is drive; to crowd or compress closely. We were wedged in by the crowd.

To force, as a wedge forces its way; as, to wedge ones way.

To fasten with a wedge or with wedges; as, to wedge on a sythe; to wedge in a rail or a piece of timber.

To fix in the manner of a wedge. Wedgd in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.