kedge
Americanverb (used with object)
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kedges,
present (3rd person singular)
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kedged,
past participle, past
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kedging
present participle
verb (used without object)
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kedges,
present (3rd person singular)
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kedged,
past participle, past
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kedging
present participle
noun
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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kedgesimple
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kedgessimple
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have kedgedperfect
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has kedgedperfect
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am kedgingprogressive
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are kedgingprogressive
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is kedgingprogressive
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have been kedgingperfect progressive
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has been kedgingperfect progressive
Past
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kedgedsimple
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had kedgedperfect
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was kedgingprogressive
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were kedgingprogressive
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had been kedgingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of kedge
1475–85; akin to Middle English caggen to fasten; see cadge 1
Example Sentences
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The Admiral trimmed ship and hauled himself off the reef with his kedge, and stood off majestically down the corridors of the Senate Office Building.
From Time Magazine Archive
He dropped a kedge at the caucus room door, and rode up into the eye of a gentle breeze, and backed his mainsail.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little air was felt at half-past seven, but at eight it fell calm again, when the vessels resorted to boats, long sweeps and the kedge.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
We lay five days at our kedge, during a calm that lasted all that time.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
She has dragged the kedge up to the stream anchor, and is putting her bows in.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
In a few minutes the fireship ran into the man-of-war, "and grappled to her sides" with kedges thrown into her shrouds.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
Two kedges were found, and a hawser was bent to one, when the launch was carried outside of the bar and anchored.
From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper
From the rocks, or the place where the kedges were laid to a point within thirty feet of the ship, these chains were dotted with living beings crawling cautiously upward.
From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper
The lugger anchored outside the cove; we got up our kedges and rowed out to her, and a dozen shoreboats did the same.
From Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
But Mark hit upon an expedient for getting the two kedges ashore, that prevented the necessity of having recourse to the raft on that occasion.
From The Crater by James Fenimore Cooper
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
The Good Intent can't be towed, not with our handful of men; but why shouldn't she be kedged?
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
By our utmost exertions the bark was gotten off, not a moment too soon, however, for by the time we kedged her into deep water a pampeiro was upon us.
From Voyage of the Liberdade by Joshua Slocum
At 7 in the evening the wind almost died out, and for four more weary hours the worn-out sailors towed and kedged.
From The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans by Theodore Roosevelt
She kedged up toward Norfolk, and when the tide rose ran in and anchored between the forts; and a few days later dropped down to cover the forts which were being built at Craney Island.
From The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans by Theodore Roosevelt
We talked of towing, of kedging out, of going to any extreme, even to small boats.
From The Mystery by Stewart Edward White
While the ships were thus being urged on by towing, kedging, and occasionally by sweeps, an intermittent fire was kept up by the British, and responded to by the "Constitution" from her stern ports.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
From thence, after two days' incessant kedging and towing, we anchored off the town of Kuchin, on the morning of the 8th instant.
From Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery by Frank Marryat
At this Captain Hull resolved to try kedging his ship along, sending a boat half a mile ahead with a light anchor and all the spare rope on board.
From The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Ralph Delahaye Paine
Filled with curiosity as to what a "jolly bit of kedging" might be, and also pleased with the idea that he was not considered utterly useless, Alaric hastily dressed and hurried on deck.
From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe
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