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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 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 Raphael Semmes

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

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

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

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

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

Notwithstanding the facility with which the kedges were got ashore, it took Mark and Bob quite half a day to plant them in the rock precisely where they were wanted.

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

Two of them carried small kedges over their shoulders.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

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

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

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

I presume you are not used to kedging, captain.

From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat

The captain of one of the enemy's frigates now sees the game, and tries kedging, but does not get near enough to throw a shot.

From Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools by Albert F. Blaisdell

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

We talked of towing, of kedging out, of going to any extreme, even to small boats.

From The Mystery by Stewart Edward White

The first, a timber vessel, missing her course a little, went on the beach; but at the next tide, by carrying an anchor into deep water and kedging, she was floated again.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake