...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.
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Kedge
//kɛd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "kedge" (36 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (18)
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Translations
19 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- спомагателна котва noun (small anchor)
Dutch
1 entries- werpanker noun (small anchor)
Finnish
3 entries- varppiankkuri noun (small anchor)
- varpata verb (transitive)
- varpata verb (intransitive)
French
3 entries- ancre à jet noun (small anchor)
- se touer verb (intransitive)
- touer verb (transitive)
German
1 entries- Wurfanker noun (small anchor)
Greek
2 entries- ισχάδα noun (small anchor)
- πινέλι noun (small anchor)
Hebrew
1 entries- עגן נגידה noun (small anchor)
Irish
1 entries- ainligh verb (transitive)
Italian
3 entries- ancorotto noun (small anchor)
- appennello noun (small anchor)
- appennellare verb (transitive)
Spanish
1 entries- anclote noun (small anchor)
Swedish
1 entries- varpankare noun (small anchor)
Ukrainian
1 entries- верп noun (small anchor)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.
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[…] 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.
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By noon the men had loaded the cargo & Prophetess was kedging out of the bay against unfavourable winds.
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