Wedge-tailed

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• Wedge

  ·vt To force or drive as a wedge is driven. II. Wedge ·noun A mass of metal, especially when of a w...

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• wedge

  Silver plate, because melted by the receivers of stolen goods into wedges. CANT. ...

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• wedge

  [from the Anglo-Saxon wege]. A simple but effective mechanical force; a triangular solid on which a ...

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• Tailed

  ·adj Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; — chiefly used in composition; as, bob...

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• Wedge gage

  ·add. ·- A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust. ...

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• Wedge gauge

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Wedge gage. ...

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• Wedge gear

  ·add. ·- A friction gear wheel with wedge-shaped circumferential grooves. ...

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• Wedge-formed

  ·adj Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform. ...

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• Wedge-shaped

  ·adj Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform. II. Wedge-shaped ·adj Broad and truncate at the summit...

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• Wedge-shell

  ·noun Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in w...

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• wedge-bill

  n. an Australian bird. ThisEnglish name for a species of humming-bird is applied inAustralia to Sph...

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• ganny-wedge

  A thick wooden wedge, used in splitting timber. ...

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• wedge-fids

  For top and top-gallant masts; in two parts, lifting by shores and sett-wedges. (See setting-up.) ...

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• Crop-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail cropped. ...

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• Dag-tailed

  ·adj Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. ...

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• Daggle-tailed

  ·adj Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed. ...

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• Draggle-tailed

  ·adj Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. ...

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• Fan-tailed

  ·adj Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon. ...

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• Fork-tailed

  ·adj Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; — said of many bir...

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• Pin-tailed

  ·adj Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; — said of birds. ...

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• Racket-tailed

  ·adj Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. ...

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• Rat-tailed

  ·adj Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. ...

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• Red-tailed

  ·adj Having a red tail. ...

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• Ring-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. ...

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• Ruby-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. ...

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• Scissors-tailed

  ·adj Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones....

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• Spine-tailed

  ·adj Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. ...

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• Stiff-tailed

  ·adj Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. ...

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• Stump-tailed

  ·adj Having a short, thick tail. ...

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• Swallow-tailed

  ·adj United by dovetailing; dovetailed. II. Swallow-tailed ·adj Having a tail like that of a swallo...

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• Wire-tailed

  ·adj Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a w...

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• culver-tailed

  Fastened by dove-tailing a way of letting one timber into another, so that they cannot slip asunder....

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• tree-nail wedge

  A cross is cut in the tree-nail end, and wedges driven in, caulked; or sometimes a wedge is driven i...

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• wedge-shaped gulf

  One which is wide at its entrance, and gradually narrows towards its termination, as that of Califor...

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• nail-tailed wallaby

  n. See onychogale. ...

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• stump-tailed lizard

  n. an Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, Gray. ...

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