释义 |
wedgy, a. rare.|ˈwɛdʒɪ| [f. wedge n. + -y1.] Resembling a wedge; shaped like a wedge.
1799W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVIII. 525 An attraction of cohesion..which is darting its wedgy crystals in every direction, and severing, with resistless interstitial force, the comparatively loose and feeble organization of every contiguous state. 1846Landor Imag. Conv., Lucian & Timotheus Wks. II. 31/2 He..pushed his wedgy snout far within the straw subjacent. 1888J. Inglis Tent Life in Tigerland 296 She shoots from aloft and cleaves the water with her wedgy beak. |