wedge

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  1. noun A piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
  2. noun Something shaped like a wedge: a wedge of pie.
  3. noun Downstate New York See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.
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  • "We would have had a problem ... if Sen. McCain would have chosen someone who used gay people as a wedge issue," Tucker said. —  News4Jax.com - Local News
  • Log Cabin Republicans endorsed then-Governor George W. Bush in 2000, but declined to endorse President Bush in 2004, "largely over his push for a federal anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment and his decision to use gay people as a wedge issue in winning re-election." —  PinkNews.co.uk
  • We have a lot to work on, and you don't make abortion the path least taken by treating it as a wedge issue rather than addressing the social ills that cause people to turn to abortion. pidderr Says: —  Think Progress
  • Yet, he did not receive much credit for his work because opponents of the CRM used Rustin's sexuality as a wedge issue to distance Rustin's colleagues from him.
  • So there's Alesi's strategy for you: smear Nachbar and use gay marriage as a wedge issue. —  rochesterturning.com
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

sliver ·  slab ·  chunk ·  triangle ·  slice ·  rectangle ·  cone ·  cylinder ·  pyramid ·  strip ·  expanse ·  crescent

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wedge:   wedging ·  wedged

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  1. Middle English wegge, from Old English wecg.

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  1. from Middle English wegge, wigge, wege, from Anglo-Saxon wecg, a wedge (a mass of metal), = Middle Dutch wegghe, wigghe, D, wigge, wig, a wedge, = Middle Low German wegge = Old High German wekki, weggi, Middle High German weeke, wegge, German wecke, weck, a wedge-shaped loaf, = Icelandic veggr = Swedish vigg = Danish vægge, a wedge; prob. literally ‘a mover’ (from the use and effect in splitting), ult. from the verb represented by weigh.Cf. Lithuanian wagis, a bent wooden peg for hanging things on, a spigot for a cask, also a wedge.
  2. from late Middle English wedgen; from the noun.
  3. A dial. variant of wadge, wage.
 

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