Wedges
[wedʒz]
Examples
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Small holes a few inches apart are cut along a certain length of rock, into which steel wedges are inserted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A chisel and an ax are illustrations of wedges. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Give me some wedges, _viejo_. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- These were extra wedges in case they should be needed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Take thy time and do it well, wedging all securely with the wooden wedges and lashing the grenades firmly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The old man was finishing whittling the last of a pile of wedges he had copied from a model Robert Jordan had given him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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