wood grenade
A kind of splitting wedge that broadens from a point (rather than from an edge) in two directions, so that the top is in the shape of a cross. Driven into the centre of a roundwood log it forces the wood apart along two diameters (at right angles) simultaneously.
This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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