kedge

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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

The boats were already in the water, the kedge lifted, and the crews bending forward in readiness for the signal.

From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Ashlock lowered the sail and dropped the kedge from the bows.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

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 Semmes, Raphael