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

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

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)

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