kedge

Example Sentences

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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

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)

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 Nash, Wallis

The boat lay riding to her kedge at less than twenty yards from shore.

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