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Definition of Kedge
1. v. i. To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
2. n. A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed with. See Kedge,
Definition of Kedge
1. Verb. (transitive) To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive of a vessel) To move with the help of a kedge, as described above. ¹
3. Noun. (nautical) A small anchor used for warping a vessel (''also called'' '''kedge anchor'''). ¹
4. Noun. (Yorkshire) A glutton ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kedge
1. to move a vessel with the use of an anchor [v KEDGED, KEDGING, KEDGES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kedge
Literary usage of Kedge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"TO CARRY OFT A kedge. Hoist the kedge out by the yard and stay, ... When the
kedge is to be let go, heave the remainder of the hawser overboard and slip the ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"The kedge-anchors are also used to transport a ship, or remove her from one part
of a harbor to another, being carried out from her in the long-boat, ..."
3. Professional recollections on points of seamanship, discipline, &c by Francis Liardet (1849)
"The plan of stowing the stream and kedge-anchors on the waist-anchors, is a very
common, but we think, not a good plan: with the present chain fore-gangers, ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... sheet, bower, stream, kedge and grapnel, for large vessels, is wholly imported
into India. Those for smaller vessels are manu» factured in this country, ..."
5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"... is generally composed of several thick pieces placed lengthways, which, after
being scarfed together, are bolted and clinched upon the upper side. kedge ..."
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