Definition of "kedging" []

• Present participle of kedge. (verb)

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• ""kedging" -- in other words, sending a row-boat out with an anchor, which was dropped as far ahead as the boat could take it, and the ship pulled up to it by means of the windlass."
• ""Sirs, I read somewhere that, on sailing ships, when there was no wind, they sometimes moved a vessel by 'kedging' her.""
• "That day, with its 'kedging' and 'boom-dodging', was filled in with the usual detail."