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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'll have to get the kedge over," he said.

From Thrice Armed by Harold Bindloss

Here we are, and down goes the kedge in six feet of water, close to but just clear of that same edge.

From Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash

"Heave right up to your kedge and break it out," he said.

From Thrice Armed by Harold Bindloss

A smaller one by two-thirds than the bowers, and larger than the kedges, used to ride steady, or moor with occasionally.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

Anchors and cables, hawsers and kedges, were abundantly supplied, because in warping into unknown places, or anchoring hastily, many an anchor is unavoidably broken or lost.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy

A small hawser or warp used to move a ship from one part of a harbour or road to another by means of boats, steamers, kedges, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

Finally he put out cables, kedges, anchors, and springs, so that with the capstan he could turn his vessels and bring either side to bear on the foe.

From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Ralph Delahaye Paine

"Here are your trousers," continued the young mate, "and the quicker you can jump into them the better, for we've a jolly bit of kedging to attend to, and need your assistance badly."

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

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