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
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 Semmes, Raphael
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)
The boat lay riding to her kedge at less than twenty yards from shore.
From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
