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Webster 1913 Edition
Unwedgeable
Un-wedge′a-ble
,Adj.
Not to be split with wedges.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unwedgeable
UNWEDGEABLE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
unwedgeable
unwedgeable
English
Adjective
unwedgeable (comparative more unwedgeable, superlative most unwedgeable)
- 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!
- 1603 William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene II