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

Captain Jeremy sent away the long-boat with a kedge slung underneath her, to which was attached a long hawser, leading over the ship's stern.

From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

We lay five days at our kedge, during a calm that lasted all that time.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

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

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