Definition of "kedge-anchor" []

• Same as kedge. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He wanted to take a length of old stream-cable and a kedge-anchor with him in the long-boat."
• "And close to us, beginning to bend away towards that hissing knot in the north-west, wound our poor little channel, mercilessly exposed as a stagnant, muddy ditch with scarcely a foot of water, not deep enough to hide our small kedge-anchor, which perked up one fluke in impudent mockery."
• "Like lightning he had cast off the dinghy's painter, tumbled the kedge-anchor and himself into the dinghy, pulled out fifty yards into the deeper water, and heaved out the anchor."