The word "wedge" is correct and usable in written English.
Generally, it is used as a noun and can refer to something which is triangular in shape and often used to hold two objects apart, or a device used to lever something open. For example, you could say "He used a wedge to pry the window open."
The projecting glassy liner, which drives a wedge between the Southbank and the National Theatre, is echoed 40 metres up in the air, by what the architects describe as a floating pavilion – a 60-metre-long glass box that will loom over the Hayward gallery.
To climb in this fashion a climber will hammer a peg (or "piton") into a crack, wedge chocks – pieces of metal of various sizes and shapes – into it or place a skyhook (a very small grappling hook) over flakes of rock and edges.
The one wedge that opens clear light between the two opposition leaders is their stated willingness to cooperate in an effort to defeat Harper.
The initial 20 closures were the thin end of the wedge that would lead to the decimation of British coal mining.
A party that wants to drive a wedge between us and our friends and neighbours in Europe.
Where is the thin end of the wedge?
This wedge can only be driven on towards the American treatment of women who endanger their foetuses in this way.
Photograph: Mike Bowers Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.07am AEST02 07 Just returning for a minute to the government's Iraq strategy to wedge Labor.
Philip Morris's covert 10-year strategy, codenamed Project Sunrise, intended to "drive a wedge between various anti groups" and "position antis as extremists".
It announced that it was going to shut its youth channel E4 for the duration of 7 May, in the hope that this would encourage the youngest wedge of the electorate to get up and vote.
"The whole thing seems like a wedge to get the states to get the GST to be raised," Newman said.
