Erosion
(n.) The act or operation of eroding or eating away. |
Erosion
(n.) The state of being eaten away |
Wedge
(n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical. |
Wedge
(n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. |
Wedge
(n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form. |
Wedge
(n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form. |
Wedge
(n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos |
Wedge
(v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge |
Wedge
(v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven. |
Wedge
(v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does |
Wedge
(v. t.) To press closely |
Wedge
(v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges |
Wedge
(v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc. |
Wedge-formed
(a.) Having the form of a wedge |
Wedge-shaped
(a.) Having the shape of a wedge |
Wedge-shaped
(a.) Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base |
Wedge-shell
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped. |
Wedge-tailed
(a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate |