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

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)

We'll call it a kedge, Mr. Glen," said I. "A kedge, you say," answered Mr. Glen, with a titter, "and a kedge we'll make it.

From The Watchers A Novel by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

They had moored the craft carefully, but he supposed she must have dragged her anchor or kedge and swung in near enough the shore to ground towards low-tide.

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold