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

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

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

She has dragged the kedge up to the stream anchor, and is putting her bows in.

From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold