kedge

Example Sentences

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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

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 Onions, Oliver

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

From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold

We finally brought up by securing some iron castings we had on board to the kedge; the chain-cable was reeved through them,—they were let down ten or fifteen feet from the anchor.

From The Captive in Patagonia by Bourne, Benjamin Franklin