A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object.
As completely as possible.
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Examples for "wedge"
Examples for "wedge"
1Questions are being asked about whether his wedge game is consistent enough.
2The signature of the wedge made that clear right from the outset.
3And therefore our task must be to drive a wedge between them.
4It was propped open, held in place with a wedge of concrete.
5In driving, the wedge should spread with and not across the grain.
1The boat needed just that impetus to free her from the chocks.
2Their only other boat was a spare one, lashed amidships on chocks.
3Those that knocked the chocks out from under that heap of logs?
4Lollee brought out wheel chocks and put them under the fat tires.
5The schooner's spare boat was in chocks between the foremast and the main.
6He then sounded, making the line whiz as it passed through the chocks.
7Use your jams as chocks to exploit small fluctuations in width.
8The bilge chocks is both pulled off; look you, they're gone away astern.
9When there are no housing-chocks the ordinary chocking-quoins may be used as such.
10She was quite empty and lay high and dry on three low chocks.
11He kicked down the anchor chocks and moved around to study the rack.
12We had maintenance guys throwing chocks under the wheel but it kept on moving.
13Always use long runners on cams and chocks that aren't placed in a direct line.
14Think of it as the chocks under a wheel of an airplane, Dr Golledge says.
15If only God would have watched out for me all the way to the chocks.
16Overboard with everything now, for beaching, capstan, chocks and all-theswell will wash them in.