Money in general.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.
In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p.
A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.
In Ireland, a coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket.
During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to drop a penny in a person's drink such that they must finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.
To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door.
A quantity of money.
A háček.
The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
A wedge tornado.
A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
To support or secure using a wedge.
To force or drive with a wedge.
Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
To cleave with a wedge.
To shape into a wedge.
To force into a narrow gap.
To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.