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
She had run out a kedge, and had a warp attached to it that was lying across the passage-way.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
"Get out a kedge; we'll try to warp her off when the tide comes in."
From The Sea Bride by Ben Ames Williams
"We'll have to get the kedge over," he said.
From Thrice Armed by Harold Bindloss
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
When one broadside was entirely out of action, he used his cables, kedges and springs, and brought the other batteries to bear.
From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton
Anchors and cables, hawsers and kedges, were abundantly supplied, because in warping into unknown places, or anchoring hastily, many an anchor is unavoidably broken or lost.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
Two of them carried small kedges over their shoulders.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
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
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
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
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
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
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
Having sounded in 26 fathoms, Lieutenant Charles Morris suggested to Hull to try kedging.
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
Now they pulled the ships by boats and now by kedging.
From Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
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
I presume you are not used to kedging, captain.
From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat
We were a brig of a hundred and eighty tons, and there was nothing to be done with poling; nor was kedging going to help us at this the first quarter of ebb.
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
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