Word Meanings - UNWEDGEABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not to be split with wedges. Shak.

Related words: (words related to UNWEDGEABLE)

• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• SPLIT SWITCH
  = Point switch.
• SPLIT-TAIL
  A california market fish belonging to the Carp family. The pintail duck.
• SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
  In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• SPLIT DYNAMOMETER
  An electric dynamometer having two coils so arranged that one carries the primary current, and the other the secondary current, of a transformer.
• SPLIT WHEEL
  = Split pulley.
• SPLIT STITCH
  A stitch used in stem work to produce a fine line, much used in old church embroidery to work the hands and faces of figures.
• SPLIT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, as that of snakes and some lizards.
• SPLITTER
  One who, or that which, splits.
• SPLIT
  To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. To split hairs, to make distinctions of useless nicety. (more info) Dan. splitte, LG. splitten, OD. splitten, spletten, D. splijten,
• SPLIT STUFF
  Timber sawn into lengths and then split.
• SPLIT KEY
  A key split at one end like a split pin, for the same purpose.
• PHASE SPLITTER
  A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.
• EAR-SPLITTING
  Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.
• SHEEPSPLIT
  A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
• RESPLIT
  To split again.
• HAIRSPLITTER
  One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
• HAIRSPLITTING
  Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n.
• PHASE SPLITTING
  The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit.