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cŭnĕo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [cuneus] (rare, and not ante-Aug.; cf. cuneatim).

To fasten with wedges, to wedge up:

si quid cuneandum sit in ligno clavisve figendum,

Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 206:

unus lapis facit fornacem, ille, qui latera inclinata cuneavit et interventu suo vinxit,

the key-stone, Sen. Ep. 118, 16.—

Trop., of discourse, to press in, force in:

si oratio cohaeret et sequitur, non, si per vim cuneatur,

Quint. 4, 3, 4.—

To make wedge-shaped; of places:

(Britannia) iterum se in diversos angulos cuneat triquetra,

is in the form of a wedge, Mel. 3, 6, 4 (cf. cuneus, I.):

(Hispania) cuneatur angustiis inter duo maria,

Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 29.—Hence, cŭnĕātus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to II.), pointed like a wedge, wedgeshaped:

ager,

Col. 5, 2, 1:

collis acumine longo,

Ov. M. 13, 778:

jugum montis in angustum dorsum,

Liv. 44, 4, 4.— Comp.:

forma scuti ad imum cuneatior,

Liv. 9, 40, 2.