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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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
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
By this time the schooner was close to the kedge; this was hauled up and sail set, but the breeze was so light that the vessel scarcely moved through the water.
From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Captain Jeremy sent away the long-boat with a kedge slung underneath her, to which was attached a long hawser, leading over the ship's stern.
From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Kedges or kedge anchors are light anchors used in warping.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
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
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
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
Then the anchor went down with a plunge, and the boats dropped lightly into the water to carry the kedges and cables to the rocks.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
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
Under Hayes's direction, at flood-tide, she was then kedged over the reef into the lagoon, and anchored in smooth water.
From Concerning "Bully" Hayes From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 by Louis Becke
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
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
We talked of towing, of kedging out, of going to any extreme, even to small boats.
From The Mystery by Stewart Edward White
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
"Nice, healthy exercise, this kedging," remarked Bonny, cheerfully, as he came on board.
From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe
In half-an-hour, however, Captain Hull ordered the firing to cease, and the men were again ordered to the boats, and rowing and kedging were kept up till eleven at night.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
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