The scion is cut wedge shaped and pushed into a slanting incision in the side of the stock.
If the branch is large a wedge is driven in the center to hold the split cavity apart and to relieve the pressure upon the scions which are to be inserted.
This leaden plug being raised by the point of a knife, nothing is easier than to add or withdraw a wedge of the same material.
The wedge continued its course unshaken, but, as if lifted by the bang, the first woodcock of the beat got up in front of me, and swung away into the rhododendrons.
The idle cartridges in his gun were obviously intolerable to him; as he crossed a little glade he discharged both barrels into the firmament, where far above, in tense flight and steady as a constellation, moved a wedge of wild geese.
Philippa, seeing her chance, and hammering in her wedgewith all speed, "now there's nothing for it but sandwiches and a picnic!
This ice body lies on the uneven surface of an extensive wedge that tapers upward to a sharp point--one of the remnants of the old crater rim.
A lesser lobe splits off to the south on a wedge of rock.
On reaching The Wedge we found it an utterly desolate rocky cape in a sea of snow.
The Tahoma Glacier, about a mile above its terminus, spits upon a low, verdant wedge and sends a lobe southward which skirts the walls of this island rock, and at its base meets again the South Tahoma Glacier.
So extensive is this wedge that it carries on its back several large ice fields and interglaciers, some of which, lying far from the beaten path of the tourist, are as yet unnamed.
Undoubtedly the Wedge formerly headed much higher up on the mountain's flank.
Gibraltar is thus seen to be composed of interbedded lavas and pyroclastics, and on the Wedge a similar alternation is several times repeated, a pink agglomerate being exceptionally striking in appearance.
Afterwards put in your wedge of Boxe or Brazill, or bone at the small end, that so you may the better take it out againe, when you haue set in your grafts.
When the base of the teeth, or the alveolus, was struck, a wedge was often broken away, and from the apex of the resulting gap a fracture extended to the lower margin of the bone.
These may be a slight degree of the form of wedge fracture last described; such a one is depicted in plate XXII.
These fragments correspond in the method of their production to those seen in the wedge fractures described below, while their separation leaves a pointed extremity to either segment of the shaft.
If, on the other hand, the lateral surfaces were struck, a wedge with the base corresponding to the posterior surface was the most common injury, the spine in many cases remaining intact and maintaining the continuity of the bone.
The effect of the larger size of the wedge provided by the bullet in increasing the length of secondary longitudinal fissures is well marked, and for the same reason the perforations are usually accompanied by fissures of considerable extent.
He broke the enemy's line: he thrust into the gap a wedge so powerful that the enemy was forced to give way on either side of it, because his centre was broken.
They were all but outflanked on their right, which was already very seriously bent back; while in the centre General Foch had driven in a wedge which bade fair to crumple up the whole line.
That "wa'n't" seemed to insert a tiny wedge between them.
He never looked at her but the guilty secret seemed to force itself between them like a wedge of ice.
It is of very irregular shape, expanding in the north to Khorasan and gradually contracting in the south to a narrow wedge between Fars and Baluchistan; the extreme length between Seistan and Fars (E.
This salient had existed since 1914, when the Germans, failing to storm the scarp protecting Verdun on the east, had driven a wedge across the lower heights to the south.
As Dick Prescott and his chums got out of the wedge they made a dash for the automobile.
Though the flying wedge is now no longer tolerated in football, there are other plays evolved from it, and the signal called for one.
The direction of the wedges is uniformly either perpendicular or horizontal, except of course in the case of the double wedge or arrow-head, where the component elements are placed obliquely.
The perforated axe of stone or horn had simply a wooden handle firmly fixed by a wedge inserted into a split at its end in the perforation, an example of which, found at Schussenried, Mr. Frank carefully preserves.
Portion of the handle of a stone celt, still in its socket, is interesting, as showing a wedge which had been inserted so as to fix it more thoroughly, just as is done at the present day.
For the historian of Indic religions this fact is of great significance, since such practice is the enteringwedge which was to split the castes.
No doubt, too, France feared that her great rival would soon seek to drive her golden lilies back to the Old World, for New France would be a wedgebetween the northern and southern possessions of England in the New World.
That afternoon picks and spades were hard at work on the wedge of gravel between its rocky walls.
Every ten feet along it bulkheads were erected across, in wedge-shape pattern, the apex of the wedge being presented upward.
Choosing the very centre of the wedge of gravel, they burrowed some three yards into it, testing samples from time to time, and finding a richer deposit of gold dust in the cradle the deeper they went.
Pressing his horse with both knees, and urging him forward with voice and spur, he managed to wedge himself in the last line of moving buffalo.
Before the echoes had died, the wedge would have moved.
Each passing day fell upon the wedge like the stroke of a hammer.
Sometimes they drove it: oftener the wedge stayed still where it was.
Not if there were three thousand desperate Hyborian horsemen fighting in a solid wedge such as I could teach them,' answered Conan.
In a solid wedge of steel they smote us like a thunderbolt.
While placing a wedge in every tiny opening, its members have prayed, protested, proclaimed and practiced.
A wedgecan be made to slip in under the cannon to raise and lower it.
The wedge should be just wide enough to slip in between the two layers of stripwood.
General Ducrot decided to be content, for that day, with having established a firm footing on the left bank of the Marne, and he brought up sixteen batteries to a position in his front, to secure the wedge of ground he had gained.
While among the Essenes, as we have said, Jesus first heard of John, and determined to use the ministry of the latter as an opening wedge for His own great work.
While resting and studying in their retreats His attention was diverted to the work of Johannen--John the Baptist--and He saw there an opening wedge for the great work that He felt called upon to do among His own people.
Butler, Farragut pushed on up the river, passed and repassed the fortifications at Vicksburg, but the army needed to drive home the wedge thus firmly entered by the navy was not yet ready.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wedge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
