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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Wood made, or fit to be made, into wedges.

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Examples

  • I asked the cashier and she thought I said "wedgewood" and says, "they make beer?"

    Our Adventures in Japan 2009

  • Attacks on democratic countries are always 'understood' and condoned by evil men like anthony pretend worker who kept all his titled wealth wedgewood benn.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • I'm sure they would mind very much if I had a play because there are all sorts of health and safety requirements I would need to fullfil first, like not wearing girly shoes, a dress based on a wedgewood plate and perhaps a hard hat.

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  • I'm sure they would mind very much if I had a play because there are all sorts of health and safety requirements I would need to fullfil first, like not wearing girly shoes, a dress based on a wedgewood plate and perhaps a hard hat.

    doors are just no fun anymore 2008

  • Viewing the gardens at the Temple of Longevity, Boles wrote that “they reminded me forcibly of the old-fashioned wedgewood ware, known as the ‘willow pattern.’”

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • I emigrated to the US in 1966 courtesy of wedgewood-benn and the first thing I learned about the Americans was that "winning" was everything....

    They make a desert and call it peace 2006

  • A white wedgewood mantel with ornaments in olive and blue, above a brass-fretted closed stove, supported a high mirror, against which were ranged a pair of tall astral lamps shining in green and red spars of light through their pendants, a French clock -- a crystal ball in a miniature Ionic pavilion of gilt -- and artificial bouquets of coloured wax under glass domes.

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • "The stomach," Sir Astley Cooper informs us, "is not a wedgewood mortar, but a living organism which can withstand a great deal of use, but does not willingly endure abuse."

    A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding Sophia Orne 1873

  • She watched him out of sight and then went into her home, and with an inscrutable smile, began to arrange the ferns and bluebells in a vase of cream-colored wedgewood.

    The Measure of a Man Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • This is the property of the tiny, yellow-nosed Apes who abound in these districts, and who store up the mulberry-jam for their food in winter, when they mix it with pellucid pale periwinkle-soup, and serve it out in wedgewood china-bowls, which grow freely all over that part of the country.

    Nonsense Books Edward Lear 1850

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