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

“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

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

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

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

From Thrice Armed by Bindloss, Harold