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

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 Semmes, Raphael

The boats were already in the water, the kedge lifted, and the crews bending forward in readiness for the signal.

From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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

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