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Definition of "kedge" []

  • A light anchor used for warping a vessel. (noun)
  • To warp (a vessel) by means of a light anchor. (verb-transitive)
  • To move by means of a light anchor. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "kedge" in a sentence
  • "In a sacred corner (as soon as ever we could attend to any thing) we hung up the leathern bag of tools, which had done much more toward saving the life of Uncle Sam than I did; for this had served as a kind of kedge, or drag, upon his little craft, retarding it from the great roll of billows, in which he must have been drowned outright."
  • "Man the boat, sir, and carry out the kedge, which is still in it, and lay it off here, about three p'ints on our larboard bow. ""
  • "Macdonough then used his preset kedge anchors to spin his ship around in place and bring his other broadside to bear."
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