a. rare. [f. WEDGE sb. + -Y1.] Resembling a wedge; shaped like a wedge.

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1799.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XXVIII. 525. An attraction of cohesion … which is darting its wedgy crystals in every direction, and severing, with resistless interstitial force, the comparatively loose and feeble organization of every contiguous state.

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1846.  Landor, Imag. Conv., Lucian & Timotheus, Wks. II. 31/2. He … pushed his wedgy snout far within the straw subjacent.

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1888.  J. Inglis, Tent Life in Tigerland, 296. She shoots from aloft and cleaves the water with her wedgy beak.

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