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Jedge vs Kedge - What's the difference?

jedge | kedge |

As nouns the difference between jedge and kedge

is that jedge is while kedge is (nautical) a small anchor used for warping a vessel; (also called a kedge anchor).

As verbs the difference between jedge and kedge

is that jedge is while kedge is to warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.

jedge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1872, author=(Edward Eggleston), title= The End Of The World
    • , passage=But he a'n't no singin'-master—not of I'm any jedge of turnips.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1882, author=(Louisa May Alcott), title= Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories
    • , passage="I ain't no great of a jedge about anything but nat'ralness of books, and it really does seem as if some of your men and women was dreadful uncomfortable creaters.}}
  • *1900 , , Ch.I:
  • *:"De ole jedge has be'n a little onreg'lar sence de wah, suh"
  • *
  • *:"Heap of it, sir," replied the overseer, taking off his cap. "It was that fine yaller lady there that made most of it. She's the one that's a-fomint''in' trouble right along. She's a quiet lookin' gal, but she ain't. It's all right what the jedge says to me, but I'm goin' to have a little settle''ment with this fine lady myself, this time."

    • Verb

    (jedg)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Irvin S. Cobb, title=The Escape of Mr. Trimm, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There ain't nobody reported missin' in this county as we know of, either; so I jedge a verdict of a unknown person dead from unknown causes would be about the correct thing. }}

    kedge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A small anchor used for warping a vessel; (also called a kedge anchor).
  • * 1896 , , "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.
  • (Yorkshire) A glutton.

    • Verb

    (kedg)
  • To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
  • (of a vessel) To move with the help of a kedge, as described above.
  • * 1911 , , "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.