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.
kedges
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present tense formof kedge (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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 Sir Edward Belcher
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 James Fenimore Cooper
The Constitution kept two kedges going all through that summer day, but the Shannon was playing the same game, and the two ships maintained their relative positions.
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
These kedges lay on the poop, where they were habitually kept, and two men had no great difficulty in getting them over the stern, suspended by stoppers.
From The Crater by James Fenimore Cooper
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
