wooden wedge
Carved angled block
A wooden wedge is a tapered piece of wood, thick at one end and narrowing to a thin edge, used for splitting, lifting, or securing.
Wedges driven into logs split them along the grain.
Smaller wedges hold doors open, level furniture, or tighten joints.
He hammered a wooden wedge into the crack to widen it.
- chockStabilizing wedge
- door stopDevice keeping entrances ajar
- splittingDividing into parts
- log splitterMachine cleaving rounds into firewood
- shimThin piece for leveling
insertion · tight fit · splaying · tapered · wedgelike · tent peg · mallet · stabilizing · chisel · doorstop · joinery · aligning · furniture making · shipbuilding · oak · timber framing · axe · hardwood
function (splitting vs. joining)
wooden wedgewood glue
Adhesive for lumber
mortise and tenon · dovetail joint · wood filler · binding agent
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