kedge

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

We finally brought up by securing some iron castings we had on board to the kedge; the chain-cable was reeved through them,—they were let down ten or fifteen feet from the anchor.

From The Captive in Patagonia by Bourne, Benjamin Franklin

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

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

When this was done, and the cable made fast so that the sloop should not drift back when the kedge was lifted, Bonny heaved up the latter and got it into the dinghy.

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