Words that rhyme with hedge

  • allege
    v 1: report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money" [syn: allege, aver, say]
  • dredge
    n 1: a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed v 1: cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it" 2: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost [syn: dredge, drag] 3: remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water
  • edge
    n 1: the boundary of a surface [syn: edge, border] 2: a line determining the limits of an area [syn: boundary, edge, bound] 3: a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box" 4: the attribute of urgency in tone of voice; "his voice had an edge to it" [syn: edge, sharpness] 5: a slight competitive advantage; "he had an edge on the competition" 6: the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something; "the edge of the leaf is wavy"; "she sat on the edge of the bed"; "the water's edge" v 1: advance slowly, as if by inches; "He edged towards the car" [syn: edge, inch] 2: provide with a border or edge; "edge the tablecloth with embroidery" [syn: border, edge] 3: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on] 4: provide with an edge; "edge a blade"
  • fledge
    v 1: feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight 2: decorate with feathers; "fledge an arrow" [syn: fledge, flight] 3: grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already" [syn: fledge, feather]
  • ledge
    n 1: a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water [syn: ledge, shelf]
  • pledge
    n 1: a deposit of personal property as security for a debt; "his saxophone was in pledge" 2: someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group 3: a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event [syn: pledge, toast] 4: a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something; "an assurance of help when needed"; "signed a pledge never to reveal the secret" [syn: assurance, pledge] v 1: promise solemnly and formally; "I pledge that I will honor my wife" [syn: pledge, plight] 2: pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals; "I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station" [syn: pledge, subscribe] 3: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail] 4: give as a guarantee; "I pledge my honor" 5: bind or secure by a pledge; "I was pledged to silence"
  • sedge
    n 1: grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
  • sledge
    n 1: a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow [syn: sled, sledge, sleigh] 2: a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges [syn: maul, sledge, sledgehammer] v 1: transport in a sleigh 2: ride in or travel with a sledge; "the antarctic expedition sledged along the coastline"; "The children sledged all day by the lake" 3: beat with a sledgehammer [syn: sledgehammer, sledge]
  • straightedge
    n 1: hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness)
  • wedge
    n 1: any shape that is triangular in cross section [syn: wedge, wedge shape, cuneus] 2: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States [syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep] 3: a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation [syn: hacek, wedge] 4: a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe [syn: wedge heel, wedge] 5: (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole 6: something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them 7: a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object [syn: chock, wedge] v 1: put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack" [syn: lodge, wedge, stick, deposit] [ant: dislodge, free] 2: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" [syn: wedge, squeeze, force]
  • veg
    n 1: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant [syn: vegetable, veggie, veg]
  • kedge
  • rehg
  • sege
  • alldredge
  • eldredge
  • reg
  • cumberledge

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