| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch.[Websters]. | |
| Verb | 1. To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.[Websters] 2. Base verb from the following inflections: kedging, kedged, kedges, kedger, kedgers, kedgingly and kedgedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "KEDGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1696. (references) |
Specialty Definition: KEDGE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] A small anchor, used to keep a ship steady when riding in a harbor or river, and particularly at the turn of the tide, to keep her clear of her bower anchor, also to remove her from one part of a harbor to another, being carried out in a boat and let go, as in warping or kedging. [Sometimes written kedger.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Food & Agriculture | One or more anchors carried in addition to the main, or bower, anchors and usually stowed aft. A kedge may be dropped while the ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat, to enable the ship to be winched off if aground, or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (nautical) A small anchor used for warping a vessel (also called kedge anchor). 1896, J.C. Hutcheson, "Young Tom Bowling": 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. (references) | 2: [Verb] (intransitive) (of a vessel) To move with the help of a kedge, as described above. 1911, Harry Collingwood, "Overdue": ...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. (references) | 3: [Verb] (transitive) To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. (references) |
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Specialty Expressions: KEDGE
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Kedge anchor | Food & Agriculture | One or more anchors carried in addition to the main, or bower, anchors and usually stowed aft. A kedge may be dropped while the ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat, to enable the ship to be winched off if aground, or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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