Definition of "kedges" []

• Plural form of kedge. (noun)

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• "Having found this to be practicable, the two kedges were hove up; and at that moment a light air came off from the land, by which the boats were so much assisted, that the Resolution soon got clear of all danger."
• "By heaving upon them, and cutting away the bower anchor, the ship was gotten afloat, where Captain Cook and his men lay for some time in the greatest anxiety, expecting every minute that either the kedges would come home, or the hawsers be cut in two by the rocks."
• "In a few minutes the fireship ran into the man-of-war, "and grappled to her sides" with kedges thrown into her shrouds."