kedge
verb (used with object)
to warp or pull (a ship) along by hauling on the cable of an anchor carried out from the ship and dropped.
had kedged
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past perfectof kedge.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Then, besides, up there they could see for miles, and Coe had kedged the schooner acrost the fairway so that Afiola might reckonize his relations in the rigging.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
