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
The boat lay riding to her kedge at less than twenty yards from shore.
From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
The ships pitched at their moorings till the kedge cables snapped and they seemed standing on their sterns.
From White Fire by Oxenham, John
"Heave right up to your kedge and break it out," he said.
From Thrice Armed by Bindloss, Harold
