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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

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)

He then took all the rope he could spare and run a kedge out nearly a half a mile ahead and dropped it.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler

Soon after nine the stream slacked, we tripped the kedge and worked up the river, the wind being still westerly, but the current having turned in our favour.

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 Fitzroy, Robert

In a few minutes the fireship ran into the man-of-war, "and grappled to her sides" with kedges thrown into her shrouds.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

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 Seton, Ernest Thompson

Two of them carried small kedges over their shoulders.

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

The drift continued; though, as the kedges and hawsers with which the anchors were backed took the strains, it became sensibly less.

From Pathfinder; or, the inland sea by Cooper, James Fenimore

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

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

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

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

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 Roosevelt, Theodore

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 Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)

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 Drake, Samuel Adams

Having sounded in 26 fathoms, Lieutenant Charles Morris suggested to Hull to try kedging.

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

Now they pulled the ships by boats and now by kedging.

From Stories of Our Naval Heroes Every Child Can Read by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

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