When it had gone about a fifth of a mile from the vessel the kedge was dropped, and a signal was given by hauling on the rope.
A kedge wouldn't hold in this slime," declared the practical Miss Baird, "even if you were able to lay it out.
The kedge was broken out and stowed, and under oars the repaired craft headed for the open sea, where the dancing ripples betokened the presence of a breeze--and a fair wind at that.
The kedge anchor was abandoned, and we steamed straight out to sea with the bower hanging below the bows.
Wild then ran out a kedge anchor to secure the stern.
When this was done, and the cable made fast so that the sloop should not drift back when the kedge was lifted, Bonny heaved up the latter and got it into the dinghy.
We had two down--the best anchor and kedge; and supposed at first that the kedge must have parted.
It was the kedge which had been holding us, to the extent of its small ability.
Soon after nine the stream slacked, we tripped the kedge and worked up the river, the wind being still westerly, but the current having turned in our favour.
This plan succeeded at last, and with relief and humility I boarded her, relit the riding-light, and carried off the kedge anchor.
Davies just threw the kedge over, and it just got a grip in time to check our momentum and save our bowsprit from the quayside.
In the ordinary way I should have run out a kedge with the dinghy, and at the next high water sailed farther in and anchored where I could lie afloat.
A strong current was sluicing past our sides, and at the eleventh hour I was turned out, clad in pyjamas and oilskins (a horrible combination), to assist in running out a kedge or spare anchor.
The hull of the Blitz loomed up, and a minute later our kedge was splashing overboard and the launch was backing alongside.
A kedge used for dropping a vessel in a stream or tide-way.
To drop anchor is simply to anchor:--underfoot, in calms, a kedge or stream is dropped to prevent drift.
Mr Leigh, we must get the wreckage cleared away first of all, after which we will get out kedge anchors astern; and if these fail us we will run out cables to the other vessels.
Our chaps soon got the kedge anchor and a hundred fathoms o' warp into the lugger and laid that right aout astern, and I give the order for the lower main torpsail and upper fore torpsail to be set.
Now, the chief object of interest in the gear of the Will Arding was a newkedge anchor.
The squall was swooping down to strike the yacht on her port quarter, realizing which, we hurriedly buoyed the line to the now useless kedge and cast it loose.
A kedge astern held her head to the prevailing southeast wind and kept her from swinging with the tide.
But while this was in operation the hawser of the kedge was chafed through on the rocky bottom and parted, when the vessel was again adrift.
I wouldn't trust the kedge to hold her in a breeze with all her square canvas set.
The meal over, the kedge was weighed and stowed, and then the boats were brought alongside, one after another, and the process of striking cargo back into the hold was vigorously proceeded with.
Immediately after breakfast in the forecastle the hands were again turned up, and a good stout hawser was bent on to the kedge anchor, which was then lowered down into the longboat and run away out broad on the ship's port quarter.
Mague you'sev hide, Madjor; do not led 'im kedge you, Mon Dieu!
See that the flukes engage in the rubble-work in the base of the centre-pier of the bridge, and run out another kedge aft.
Bring the boat under the upper hatchway, Lancarrow, and you, Gwennap, I want you to lay out a kedge up stream.
While the Boats were thus employed we hove up the Kedge Anchor, it being of no more use.
Cast off the Hawser, hove short on the Bower, and carried out the Kedge Anchor, in order to warp the Ship out of the Cove.
The answer from above was "all-right," and soon after he grabbed a kedgethat slowly and silently descended near him.
When this was reached, a kedge anchor was dropped, the face piece of the armor screwed on, the pipes attached and Tom quietly slipped over the side and descended to the reef.
Look for yourself, Sir Gervaise; unless my eyes are good for nothing, Daly is running a kedgeup alongside of his woman.
The name of the ship is the Victory, I am told; why did you put her in armour, and whip a kedge up against the poor woman?
At last we got a kedge out right astern, and the crew manned the capstan.
All the available rope in the ship was then bent on to a kedge and carried far ahead, when the kedge was lowered to the bottom.
Just before we got up to the end of the breakwater we'd dropped a kedge anchor made fast to our biggest wire hawser, and as we went along we paid the hawser out astern.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kedge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anchor; board; boom; disembark; dock; haul; heave; kedge; lash; lay; log; moor; warp
