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wedgelike en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English wedge Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English wedgelike From wedge + -like.

Meanings

1. Shaped like a wedge.
   • He looks, he feels, and satisfies himself: the driving forward with fury, its prodigious stiffness, thus impacted, wedgelike, breaks the union of those parts, and gain'd him just the insertion of the tip of it, lip-deep; which being sensible of, he improved his advantage, and following well his stroke, in a straight line, forcibly deepens his penetration 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

Forms

Synonyms

wedgy · cuneate · cuneiform · wedge-shaped

Translations (12)

mk клинест (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · be клінападо́бны (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · ru клинообра́зный (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · pl klinowy (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · el σφηνοειδής (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · ca cuneïforme (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · uk клиноподі́бний (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · bg клинообразен (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · fi kiilamainen (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · ru клинови́дный (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · de keilförmig (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform) · pl klinowaty (shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform)