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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

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 Oliver Onions

Soon after nine the stream slacked, we tripped the kedge and worked up the river, the wind being still westerly, but the current having turned in our favour.

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

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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The lugger anchored outside the cove; we got up our kedges and rowed out to her, and a dozen shoreboats did the same.

From Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The car was a small wicker basket; its cargo consisted of a few bags of sand for ballast, a barometer, and a couple of small kedges with lines to match.

From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Tyrone Power

The Constitution kept two kedges going all through that summer day, but the Shannon was playing the same game, and the two ships maintained their relative positions.

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

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

When one broadside was entirely out of action, he used his cables, kedges and springs, and brought the other batteries to bear.

From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton

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

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

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

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

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

While the ships were thus being urged on by towing, kedging, and occasionally by sweeps, an intermittent fire was kept up by the British, and responded to by the "Constitution" from her stern ports.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

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

"Nice, healthy exercise, this kedging," remarked Bonny, cheerfully, as he came on board.

From Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe

Having sounded in 26 fathoms, Lieutenant Charles Morris suggested to Hull to try kedging.

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

I presume you are not used to kedging, captain.

From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat