wedge

noun

golf club
polyhedron defined by two triangles and three trapezoid faces
shoe with a high heel integral with the sole
mechanical device; triangular shaped tool; portable inclined plane; one of the six classical simple machines

Pronunciation: /wɛd͡ʒ/

Etymology: From Wedgewood, surname of the person who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
“The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.”

Etymology: From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.

To support or secure using a wedge.
“I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.”
“"Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.”
To force into a narrow gap.
“He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.”
“I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.”
To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
“My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.”
To cleave with a wedge.
To force or drive with a wedge.
To shape into a wedge.