Meaning of kedge | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small anchor used for warping a vessel.
2. A glutton.
   Yorkshire

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Examples

“...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.”

“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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