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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 Semmes, Raphael

A kedge wouldn't hold in this slime," declared the practical Miss Baird, "even if you were able to lay it out.

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

The kedge was then dropped, and by taking a strain on the cable the Golden Hope was brought to lie broadside on to the mouth of the harbour.

From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

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 Cooper, James Fenimore

Next morning, when the kedges were fished up, the Marie went on her way to Iceland, and Yann's heart, to all appearance, was as free as in his early years.

From An Iceland Fisherman by Cambon, M. Jules

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

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 Cooper, James Fenimore

The car was a small wicker basket; its cargo consisted of a few bags of sand for ballast, a barometer, and a couple of small kedges with lines to match.

From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Power, Tyrone

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 Osbourne, Lloyd

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 Becke, Louis

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 Roosevelt, Theodore

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 Strang, Herbert

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 Slocum, Joshua

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 Marryat, Frank

Filled with curiosity as to what a "jolly bit of kedging" might be, and also pleased with the idea that he was not considered utterly useless, Alaric hastily dressed and hurried on deck.

From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Munroe, Kirk

All through the afternoon the British frigates kept towing and kedging, being barely out of gunshot.

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 Roosevelt, Theodore

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 Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

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 Paine, Ralph Delahaye