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- Wedge - n. - A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
- Wedge - n. - A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- Wedge - n. - A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
- Wedge - n. - Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
- 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.
- Wedge - v. t. - To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
- Wedge - v. t. - To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
- Wedge - v. t. - To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
- Wedge - v. t. - To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
- 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.
- Wedge - v. t. - To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
- Wedge-formed - a. - Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
- Wedge-shaped - a. - Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
- Wedge-shaped - a. - Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
- Wedge-shell - n. - Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
- 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.
- Wedgebill - n. - An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
- Wedged - imp. & p. p. - of Wedge
- Wedgewise - adv. - In the manner of a wedge.
- Ingot - n. - A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
- Impact - v. t. - To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
- Jack - n. - A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
- Glut - n. - A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
- Enter - v. t. - To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
- Key - n. - A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock.
- Jam - v. t. - To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.
- Wedge - v. t. - To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
- 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.
- 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.
- Boottree - n. - An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.
- Echelon - n. - An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.
- Quoin - n. - To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.
- Wedge - v. t. - To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
- Wedge - v. t. - To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
- Wedge - v. t. - To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
- 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.
- Gad - n. - A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc.
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- H2490 חָלַל - 2490 חָלַל - חָלַל - - châlal - khaw-lal' - a primitive root (compare חָלָה); also denominative (from חָלִיל); properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute); begin ([idiom] men began), defile, [idiom] break, defile, [idiom] eat (as common things), [idiom] first, [idiom] gather the grape thereof, [idiom] take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound. - Verb - heb
- H3800 כֶּתֶם - 3800 כֶּתֶם - כֶּתֶם - - kethem - keh'-them - from כָּתַם; properly, something carved out, i.e. ore; hence, gold (pure as originally mined); ((most) fine, pure) gold(-en wedge). - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3956 לָשׁוֹן - 3956 לָשׁוֹן - לָשׁוֹן - - lâshôwn - law-shone' - or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from לָשַׁן; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water); [phrase] babbler, bay, [phrase] evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge. - Noun Masculine - heb
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- Isaiah 23 13:12 - I will make a man more precious than fine gold ; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
אוקיר אנושׁ מפז ואדם מכתם אופיר - Joshua 6 7:24 - And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
ויקח יהושׁע את־עכן בנ־זרח ואת־הכסף ואת־האדרת ואת־לשׁון הזהב ואת־בניו ואת־בנתיו ואת־שׁורו ואת־חמרו ואת־צאנו ואת־אהלו ואת־כל־אשׁר־לו וכל־ישׂראל עמו ויעלו אתם עמק עכור - Joshua 6 7:21 - When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
ואראה בשׁלל אדרת שׁנער אחת טובה ומאתים שׁקלים כסף ולשׁון זהב אחד חמשׁים שׁקלים משׁקלו ואחמדם ואקחם והנם טמונים בארץ בתוך האהלי והכסף תחתיה
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- Joshua 6 7:21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
רָאָה שָׁלָל אֶחָד טוֹב שִׁנְעָר אַדֶּרֶת מֵאָה שֶׁקֶל כֶּסֶף אֶחָד לָשׁוֹן זָהָב חֲמִשִּׁים שֶׁקֶל מִשְׁקָל חָמַד לָקַח טָמַן אֶרֶץ תָּוֶךְ אֹהֶל כֶּסֶף - Isaiah 23 13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
אֱנוֹשׁ יָקַר פָּז אָדָם כֶּתֶם אוֹפִיר - Joshua 6 7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
יְהוֹשׁוּעַ יִשְׂרָאֵל לָקַח עָכָן בֵּן זֶרַח כֶּסֶף אַדֶּרֶת לָשׁוֹן זָהָב בֵּן בַּת שׁוֹר חֲמוֹר צֹאן אֹהֶל עָלָה עֵמֶק עָכוֹר