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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

Half-overblown rubbish strewed the beach—rusty tin pans and kettles, old kedge anchors, corks, a mass of potato-parings in which three or four hens scratched, and the skeletons of a couple of disused boats.

From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

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

From The Sea Bride by Ben Ames Williams

When it had drifted us as far to the northward as I desired to go, I was obliged to let go a kedge in fifty fathoms water to prevent further drift.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes

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 James Fenimore Cooper

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 Samuel Adams Drake

I presume you are not used to kedging, captain.

From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat

"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

The captain of one of the enemy's frigates now sees the game, and tries kedging, but does not get near enough to throw a shot.

From Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools by Albert F. Blaisdell

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

From The Mystery by Stewart Edward White