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

Captain Jeremy sent away the long-boat with a kedge slung underneath her, to which was attached a long hawser, leading over the ship's stern.

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

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

Ashlock lowered the sail and dropped the kedge from the bows.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)