unwedgeable
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unwedgeable (comparative more unwedgeable, superlative most unwedgeable)
- That cannot be split, as with a wedge.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt,
Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak[.]
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Mirabeau”, in London and Westminster Review:
- Strong, tough as the oak-root, and as gnarled and unwedgeable; no fibre of him running straight with the other: a block for Destiny to beat on, for the world to gaze at, with ineffectual wonder!