kedge
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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 kedge was broken out and stowed, and under oars the repaired craft headed for the open sea, where the dancing ripples betokened the presence of a breeze—and a fair wind at that.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
She had run out a kedge, and had a warp attached to it that was lying across the passage-way.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
These kedges lay on the poop, where they were habitually kept, and two men had no great difficulty in getting them over the stern, suspended by stoppers.
From The Crater by James Fenimore Cooper
From the rocks, or the place where the kedges were laid to a point within thirty feet of the ship, these chains were dotted with living beings crawling cautiously upward.
From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper
Notwithstanding the facility with which the kedges were got ashore, it took Mark and Bob quite half a day to plant them in the rock precisely where they were wanted.
From The Crater by James Fenimore Cooper
His first orders, therefore, when all hands were mustered, were for the boats to get in the kedges and the stream anchor, and otherwise to prepare to move the vessel.
From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper
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
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
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
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
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
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
Filled with curiosity as to what a "jolly bit of kedging" might be, and also pleased with the idea that he was not considered utterly useless, Alaric hastily dressed and hurried on deck.
From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe
From thence, after two days' incessant kedging and towing, we anchored off the town of Kuchin, on the morning of the 8th instant.
From Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery by Frank Marryat
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
At this Captain Hull resolved to try kedging his ship along, sending a boat half a mile ahead with a light anchor and all the spare rope on board.
From The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Ralph Delahaye Paine
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
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