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

Kedge, kej, n. a small anchor for keeping a ship steady, and for warping the ship.—v.t. to move by means of a kedge, to warp.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

The ships pitched at their moorings till the kedge cables snapped and they seemed standing on their sterns.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

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

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