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Kedge

//kɛd͡ʒ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small anchor used for warping a vessel.

    "...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."

  2. 2
    A glutton. Yorkshire
Verb
  1. 1
    To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. transitive
  2. 2
    To move with the help of a kedge, as described above. intransitive

    "[…] 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Perhaps an alteration of cadge.

Etymology 2

Perhaps an alteration of cadge.

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