Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering. · A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. · A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. · A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
To support or secure using a wedge. · To force into a narrow gap. · To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass. · To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.
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