kedges
- present tense form of kedge (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Notwithstanding the facility with which the kedges were got ashore, it took Mark and Bob quite half a day to plant them in the rock precisely where they were wanted.
From The Crater by Cooper, James Fenimore
The sails were bent, and the only anchor, la Pauline's stream, with her two largest kedges, was on our bows.
From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by Cooper, James Fenimore
A small hawser or warp used to move a ship from one part of a harbour or road to another by means of boats, steamers, kedges, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
The drift continued; though, as the kedges and hawsers with which the anchors were backed took the strains, it became sensibly less.
From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by Cooper, James Fenimore
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 Cooper, James Fenimore
