Wedge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wedged p. pr. & vb. n. Wedging.]
 1. To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.  “My heart, as wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain.”
 2. To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
 Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger
 Could not be wedged in more.   --Shak.
    He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth.   --Mrs. J. H. Ewing.
 3. To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
 4. To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
    Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.   --Dryden.
 5. To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.
 6. Pottery To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.

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 wedged
      adj : wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth" [syn: impacted]