kedge
English
editEtymology
editPerhaps an alteration of cadge.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkedge (plural kedges)
- (nautical) A small anchor used for warping a vessel.
- Synonyms: kedge anchor, keelek, kedger
- 1840, w:Richard Henry Dana Jr., w:Two Years Before the Mast:
- ...and throw them into the boat, which, as there are no wharves, we usually kept anchored by a small kedge, or keelek, just outside of the surf.
- 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.
- (Yorkshire) A glutton.
Translations
editsmall anchor
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Verb
editkedge (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, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- By noon the men had loaded the cargo & Prophetess was kedging out of the bay against unfavourable winds.
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