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Hedge
- noun - a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement; "when you say `maybe' you are just hedging"
- any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
- enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges; "hedge the property"
- hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge; "The animals were hedged in"
- minimize loss or risk; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets"
Kedge
- - small anchor used for kedging
- To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
Ledge
- noun - a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
Sedge
- noun - grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers
Tedge
- - The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.
Wedge
- noun - (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
- a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
- a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese
- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack"
- something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"