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 kedge was then dropped, and by taking a strain on the cable the Golden Hope was brought to lie broadside on to the mouth of the harbour.

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

Ringing off the engines, he ran forward with a deckhand to drop the kedge anchor.

From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold

"We'll have to get the kedge over," he said.

From Thrice Armed by Bindloss, Harold