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the simplest machine, secretly the reason you have shoes, splits firewood, and ate Australia's prime minister
means A triangular tool or shape, thicker at one end and tapering to a thin edge, used to split, lift, secure, or hold things apart.
from From Old English 'wecg,' a chunk or lump of metal, sharing roots with Old Norse 'veggr' and other Germanic words for a wedge-shaped mass. The word has stayed remarkably steady for over a thousand years, which makes sense for the oldest and least improvable of the six classical simple machines — you can't really redesign a triangle.
- ancient tool
- One of six classical simple machines
- force multiplier
- Converts a push into a sideways split
- every blade
- Knives, axes, teeth are all wedges
- golf weapon
- Wedges are clubs built for short approaches
- deadly salad
- The wedge salad is just lettuce, defiantly uncut
door wedge — simple triangular device used to hold doors open, oldest form dating back thousands of years
wedge salad — quarter-head of iceberg lettuce with blue cheese dressing, popularized at steakhouses like ruth's chris in the 1990s
golf wedge — pitching wedge, sand wedge, and lob wedge are specific clubs with 45-64 degree lofts used in professional golf