Kedge - What does it mean?
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(nautical) A small anchor used for warping a vessel; (also called a kedge anchor).
* 1896 , , "Young Tom Bowling":
(Yorkshire) A glutton.
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":
kedge
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Verb
(kedg)- 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.
