A section through the edge is that of a simple splitting wedge.

It made his head look like a forester's splitting wedge.

Two splitting wedges, covered with rust and dust.

Splitting wedge, used in multiple, for initial heavy splitting.

The splitting wedges held it shut.

He picked up the splitting wedge, which was also sharp; Harry didn't want Graham to cut himself on the wedge, either.

Examples include axes, splitting mauls, and splitting wedges.

I've lost a little weight. . . ." The front door opened behind them, and Harry stood sweating in the doorway, holding his beloved splitting wedge.

He appeared to be in his fifties, balding and thin to the point of gauntness, with a beak that would have made a good head for a splitting wedge.

Cleaving usually begins from one end of a log, by driving the cleaving axe or a splitting wedge into the end of the log.

It was an ally, fanning his hate-filled strength, and he grunted with effort as he drove his fingertips into the small gap like splitting wedges of flesh.

Engineering crews, working to Rus From's careful plans and equipped with giant crosscut saws, axes, sledgehammers, and splitting wedges, had altered the landscape almost beyond recognition.

Clan Battlehammer called that particular formation the "splitting wedge" because of its ability to maneuver easily against weak spots in their enemy's line, shifting the focus of its offensive push.

Despite this, one reason that many splitting wedges have a wide angle is that an elastic material, such as wood, will bind a narrow wedge more readily than a wide wedge.

The hammer side of the maul is often used in wood splitting when combined with a splitting wedge, driving the wedge into the wood in the same fashion as the maul itself.