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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

Ringing off the engines, he ran forward with a deckhand to drop the kedge anchor.

From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss

Kedges or kedge anchors are light anchors used in warping.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

"Get out a kedge; we'll try to warp her off when the tide comes in."

From The Sea Bride by Ben Ames Williams

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

The lugger anchored outside the cove; we got up our kedges and rowed out to her, and a dozen shoreboats did the same.

From Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

But Mark hit upon an expedient for getting the two kedges ashore, that prevented the necessity of having recourse to the raft on that occasion.

From The Crater by James Fenimore Cooper

When one broadside was entirely out of action, he used his cables, kedges and springs, and brought the other batteries to bear.

From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton

The car was a small wicker basket; its cargo consisted of a few bags of sand for ballast, a barometer, and a couple of small kedges with lines to match.

From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Tyrone Power

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

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

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

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

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

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

From The Mystery by Stewart Edward White

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 Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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

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 Theodore Roosevelt