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kedge
Part of speech: NounA small anchor used in light work.
Part of speech: VerbTo move ( a vessel, raft, etc.) by operating such an anchor.
Usage examples "kedge":- Toward the evening, finding that the gale did not moderate, and that it might be some time before an opportunity offered to get higher up, I came to a resolution to heel the ship where we were; and, with this view, moored her with a kedge- anchor and hawser. - "A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16", Robert Kerr.
- One would have thought that the natives, by this time, would have been so sensible of the effect of our fire- arms, as not to have provoked us to fire upon them any more, but the event proved otherwise; for the boat had no sooner left the kedge- anchor, than two men in a canoe put off from the shore, took hold of the buoy rope, and attempted to drag it ashore, little considering what was fast to it. - "A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1", James Cook.
- When the time arrived for making the dash at the bar, the kedge was run up to the bows by willing hands, and the " Lee" started at full speed. - "The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner", John Wilkinson.