Wedged

ppl. a. [f. WEDGE sb. and v.¹ + -ED.] Shaped like a wedge.

1552.  Huloet, Wedged, cuneatus.

1722.  A. Philips, Briton, I. i. 2. In Chariots, fang’d with Scythes, they scour the Field: Drive through our wedged Batalions with a Whirl.

1730.  A. Gordon, Maffei’s Amphith., 307. The Key-Stone in the middle is wedged, and, as we say, Swallow-tail’d.

1809.  Campbell, Gert. Wyom., III. xxv. With … arrowy frize, and wedged ravelin.

a. 1813.  A. Wilson, Foresters, Wks. (Belfast, 1846), 250. Above, around, in numerous flocks are seen Long lines of ducks o’er this their fav’rite scene; Some to the lake in wedged divisions bend.

1827.  Encycl. Lond., XXII. 806/2. Two fore-teeth, of which the upper are wedged, the lower are acute.

1867.  Emerson, Poems, May-day, 29. Or hark, Where yon wedged line the Nestor leads, Steering north with raucous cry Through tracts and provinces of sky.

1874.  Thearle, Naval Archit., 336. The cover being secured by wedged buttons worked with a spanner.

1891.  Century Dict., Wedged, in zool., wedge-shaped; cuneiform or cuneate: as, a wedged bone; the wedged tail of a bird.