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Kedge vs Ledge - What's the difference?

kedge | ledge |

As nouns the difference between kedge and ledge

is that kedge is (nautical) a small anchor used for warping a vessel; (also called a kedge anchor) while ledge is a shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.

As a verb kedge

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

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.

    ledge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
  • (geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
  • A layer or stratum.
  • A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
  • (architecture) A (door or window) lintel .
  • (architecture) A cornice.
  • A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
  • (slang) A lege; a legend.
  • * [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/8605605/Andy-Murray-v-Feliciano-Lopez-at-Wimbledon-2011-as-it-happened.html], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19083758
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