Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not to be split with wedges; in general, not easily split; not fissile, as pepperidge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not to be split with wedges.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That cannot be
split , as with awedge .
Etymologies
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un- + wedgeable
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Examples
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In tough, unwedgeable, knotty strength, it is the oak of oaks, a magnificent tree.
The Yosemite John Muir 1876
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Perhaps Sir Uvedale preferred "unwedgeable and gnarled oaks," to "the tameness of the poor pinioned trees of a gentleman's plantation, drawn up straight," or the wooded banks of a river, to the "bare shaven border of a canal." [
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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