English
Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�d�|-�d�
Noun
en-noun
#nautical A small anchor used for warping a vessel (also called kedge anchor).
Quotations
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. � w:John Conroy Hutcheson|J.C. Hutcheson, "Young Tom Bowling", 1896
Translations
Finnish: varppiankkuri
Verb
en-verb|kedg|ing
#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.
Quotations
...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. � w:Harry Collingwood|Harry Collingwood, "Overdue", 1911
Translations
Finnish: varpata
io:kedge
fi:kedge
te:kedge
vi:kedge
zh:kedge
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