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

“Happy peregrines!” he exclaimed, pretending to apostrophise the two great falcons, that, now hooded, had been returned to their kedge.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

He then took all the rope he could spare and run a kedge out nearly a half a mile ahead and dropped it.

From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler

"Get out a kedge; we'll try to warp her off when the tide comes in."

From The Sea Bride by Williams, Ben Ames