WEDGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wedged mean? 

• WEDGED (adjective)
  The adjective WEDGED has 1 sense:

1. wedged or packed in together

  Familiarity information: WEDGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEDGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wedged or packed in together

Synonyms:

impacted; wedged

Context example:

an impacted tooth

Similar:

compact (closely and firmly united or packed together)

 Context examples 

It was but a stone, wedged between frog and shoe in the off fore-foot, but it was a minute or two before we could wrench it out.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His precious valise was wedged in beside him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Between these two formidable assailants the seamen were being slowly wedged more closely together, until they stood back to back under the mast with the rovers raging upon every side of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a double stream upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found ourselves in the office.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her majesty had taken a marrow-bone upon her plate, and, after knocking out the marrow, placed the bone again in the dish erect, as it stood before; the dwarf, watching his opportunity, while Glumdalclitch was gone to the side-board, mounted the stool that she stood on to take care of me at meals, took me up in both hands, and squeezing my legs together, wedged them into the marrow bone above my waist, where I stuck for some time, and made a very ridiculous figure.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector, his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Clutching the woodwork of the galley for support,—and I confess the grease with which it was scummed put my teeth on edge,—I reached across a hot cooking-range to the offending utensil, unhooked it, and wedged it securely into the coal-box.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was wedged in between Redruth and a stout old gentleman, and in spite of the swift motion and the cold night air, I must have dozed a great deal from the very first, and then slept like a log up hill and down dale through stage after stage, for when I was awakened at last it was by a punch in the ribs, and I opened my eyes to find that we were standing still before a large building in a city street and that the day had already broken a long time.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Their determined rush carried the prize-fighters before them, the inner ropes snapped like threads, and in an instant the ring was a swirling,’ seething mass of figures, whips and sticks falling and clattering, whilst, face to face, in the middle of it all, so wedged that they could neither advance nor retreat, the smith and the west-countryman continued their long-drawn battle as oblivious of the chaos raging round them as two bulldogs would have been who had got each other by the throat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)