a. [f. WEDGE sb. + -LIKE.] Like or resembling a wedge.
1594. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 48. There are commonly sixe bones, which compasse the braine on eche side, besides that which is called the wedge-like bone, which is vnder the pallat of the mouth.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 456. The Wedge-like-forme of the country.
1652. Benlowes, Theophila, X. xci. But still thy knotty Brain with wedg-like Anguish cleave.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., VI. 239. Or these [teeth] there are six rows,… sharp-pointed, and of a wedge-like figure.
1840. Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 125/1. They are farther secured by a wedgelike pin driven into their centres.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 598. Diminished by degrees into mere wedge-like streaks.
