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Webster 1913 Edition
Kedge
Kedge
(kĕj)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Kedged
(kĕjd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Kedging
.] [Cf. dial. Sw. , for
keka
to tug, to drag one’s self slowly forward; or perh. fr. ked
, and kedge
, Noun.
keg anchor
, named from the keg
or cask fastened to the anchor to show where it lies.] (Naut.)
To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
Webster 1828 Edition
Kedge
KEDGE
,Noun.
KEDGE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
kedge
kedge
English
Noun
kedge (plural kedges)
- (nautical) A small anchor used for warping a vessel; also called a kedge anchor.
- 1896, J.C. Hutcheson, "Young Tom Bowling":
- The chaps who had gone off in the cutter had been equally spry with their job, bending on a stout hemp hawser through the ring of the kedge anchor, which they dropped some half a cable's length from the brig, bringing back the other end aboard, where it was put round the capstan on the forecastle.
- 1896, J.C. Hutcheson, "Young Tom Bowling":
- (Yorkshire) A glutton.
Translations
Verb
kedge (third-person singular simple present kedges, present participle kedging, simple past and past participle kedged)
- (transitive) To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
- (intransitive, of a vessel) To move with the help of a kedge, as described above.
- 1911, Harry Collingwood, "Overdue":
- […] there was a stretch of twelve miles of channel running in a north-easterly direction which the ship could not possibly negotiate under sail unless a change of wind should occur — of which there seemed to be absolutely no prospect. The only alternative, therefore, would be to kedge those twelve miles; truly a most formidable undertaking for four persons — one of them being a girl — to attempt.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- By noon the men had loaded the cargo & Prophetess was kedging out of the bay against unfavourable winds.
- 1911, Harry Collingwood, "Overdue":
Translations
intransitive
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