There is also a wedge-shaped ax for splitting wood. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
The dark wedge-shaped area near the centre is "Syrtis Major.". From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
The Takht-i-Rustam is wedge-shaped in plan, with uneven sides. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Anything wedge-shaped, with a gradual slope, should serve well. From Wordnik.com. [The iPad in daily life: To have and to hold] Reference
This intervening space comprises the wedge-shaped desert of Kach. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Then how her wedge-shaped bill rapped and rapped against the wood. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Birds] Reference
The head was wedge-shaped and made of steel, with sword-sharp edges. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Dice the apples and cut the pineapple in narrow wedge-shaped pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies] Reference
Genoese fort, with wedge-shaped bastions, boldly standing at the end of. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Anna Zanidov turned her wedge-shaped face toward Lilla, with the words. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Its leaves are wedge-shaped and its flowers are large, whitish and fleshy. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference
Cut each cylinder obliquely from end to end, forming two wedge-shaped portions. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Then there is the woman with the sharp chin, the woman of the wedge-shaped face. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
These tie rods have eyes at each end in which rods with wedge-shaped ends are inserted. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
In the third dimension, the nail is wedge-shaped, thin at the point and thick at the head. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
As it increases in size, it becomes differentiated into three parts: a wedge-shaped base or. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
A small wedge-shaped plug of lymph indicates the position of the actual track at its termination. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Abdomen ovate, the node of the petiole incrassate, and viewed sideways is triangular or wedge-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
It didn't look like much: a wedge-shaped box a meter long, like something from high-school shop class. From Wordnik.com. [Space Plane] Reference
The circular light area near the centre is "Hellas," and the dark wedge-shaped area is "Syrtis Major.". From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
Where can you find one who does not know when the wild ducks in the wedge-shaped flocks fly southward?. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Birds] Reference
But the axes, or wedge-shaped objects that have been found in trees, are more difficult for orthodoxy. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Two long doubly wedge-shaped lateral fragments, and pointed extremities to both main fragments, are shown. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
It must have been very peculiar, if in all aerolites not wedge-shaped, no such phenomenon had ever been observed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Unless they were as high, there would not be room for the people down at this crowded end of the wedge-shaped town. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
The node of the petiole incrassate, very slightly elevated; viewed sideways, broadly wedge-shaped; the abdomen ovate. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Waking with a cry, she discerned, in the act of fading away against the curtains, the dead-white, wedge-shaped face of Anna. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
The phenomenon is not questioned, but the orthodox preference is to call it, not ax-like, nor wedge-shaped, but "pyramidal.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Suppose the piece to be wedge-shaped in any direction; then another view will be necessary, as is shown in Figs. 126 and 127. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
The last spade used is very narrow, and tapers rapidly, so as to form a narrow wedge-shaped cavity for the bottom of the trench. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
And this was odd, for nothing could be saner than the globular interior of the aircraft, divided into four wedge-shaped apartments. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
The wedge-shaped edge of one of the forms of bit shown in the sketch is filed to shape and the bit heated in a fire or on a gas heater. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
In most cases, after three or four cross-walls are formed, two walls arise in the end cell so inclined as to enclose a wedge-shaped cell. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
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