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English
Etymology
From un- + wedgeable.
Adjective
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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!