Within an hour they were afloat and moored a few feet from the bank of the creek, stern ropes and kedges having been laid out so as to haul them off into deep water should it be necessary to embark in a hurry.
I've been getting out double cables and kedges to the rocks for both the ships.
Then the anchor went down with a plunge, and the boats dropped lightly into the water to carry the kedges and cables to the rocks.
Two kedges were got on deck, and hawsers were bent to them; the inner ends of the hawsers were bent, in their turns, to the crowns of the anchors, and everything was got ready to throw them overboard at the proper moment.
The drift continued; though, as the kedges and hawsers with which the anchors were backed took the strains, it became sensibly less.
They got out the boats to carry the kedges and set them firm, and tried to row her out of it by uniting all their forces together upon the tow-lines--a heavy piece of work this, which lasted ten successive hours.
The flood-tide was now running up with great rapidity, and she was therefore dropped through the passage, being steadied by kedges and hawsers, two of which they cut away, and left behind.
But Mark hit upon an expedient for getting the two kedges ashore, that prevented the necessity of having recourse to the raft on that occasion.
Notwithstanding the facility with which the kedgeswere got ashore, it took Mark and Bob quite half a day to plant them in the rock precisely where they were wanted.
These kedges lay on the poop, where they were habitually kept, and two men had no great difficulty in getting them over the stern, suspended by stoppers.
As soon as the boats were at liberty, and before the chain had been got ashore, two kedges were carried to the reef, and laid among the rocks, in such a way that their flukes and stocks equally got hold of the projections.
To these kedges lighter chains were secured; and when all the bights were hove-in, to as equal a strain as possible.
His first orders, therefore, when all hands were mustered, were for the boats to get in the kedges and the stream anchor, and otherwise to prepare to move the vessel.
As the kedges still lay on the reef, and all the anchors remained in the places where they had originally been placed, there was little to do but to get ready to heave upon the chains as soon as the tide rose.
From the rocks, or the place where the kedges were laid to a point within thirty feet of the ship, these chains were dotted with living beings crawling cautiously upward.
Two kedges were found, and a hawser was bent to one, when the launch was carried outside of the bar and anchored.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kedges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
