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Webster 1913 Edition


Unwedgeable

Un-wedge′a-ble

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Adj.
Not to be split with wedges.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unwedgeable

UNWEDGEABLE

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Adj.
unwedj'able. Not to be split with wednes. [Barbarous and not used.]

Definition 2024


unwedgeable

unwedgeable

English

Adjective

unwedgeable (comparative more unwedgeable, superlative most unwedgeable)

  1. That cannot be split, as with a wedge.
    • 1603 William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene II
      Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt,
      Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak[.]
    • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, Mirabeau, London and Westminster Review
      Strong, tough as the oak-root, and as gnarled and unwedgeable; no fibre of him running straight with the other: a block for Destiny to beat on, for the world to gaze at, with ineffectual wonder!