unwedgeable

comparative more unwedgeable · superlative most unwedgeable

1. That cannot be split, as with a wedge.

   Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak[.]

   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]

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   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!

   1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Mirabeau”, in London and Westminster Review