wedger

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noun

A kitchen utensil for cutting fruit and vegetables into wedges.

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Meanings

nounwedger (plural wedgers)

plural wedgers

  1. A kitchen utensil for cutting fruit and vegetables into wedges.

    Look for the wedger in kitchen shops.

    2009 May 6, Susan Sampson, “Thin edge of the wedge”, in Toronto Star
  2. A person who wedges clay.

    Neither girls nor women should be permitted to be wedgers of clay, and for the same reasons.

    1867, Reports of the Inspectors of Factories to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, page 84

Origin

From wedge + -er.

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APA

wedger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wedger

MLA

“wedger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wedger. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wedger,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wedger.

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