wedge

Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.

Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?

It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper.

She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.

Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure.

Lay out our golden wedges to the view,

That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.

I made a big fat wedge from that job.

I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.

The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.

Turned V is referred to as “Wedge” by some phoneticians, but this seems inadvisable to us, because the haček accent (ˇ) is also called that in names like Wedge C for (č).