I shall do to-morrow, the first thing - run out a light anchor and kedge the schooner off the beach. Huckabee warns Palin: Don't leave GOP 2009 That leaking boat needs another anchor to insure its final destruction and Sarah is a one ton kedge. Macdonough then used his preset kedge anchors to spin his ship around in place and bring his other broadside to bear.īetween War and Peace Col. Man the boat, sir, and carry out the kedge, which is still in it, and lay it off here, about three p'ints on our larboard bow. In a sacred corner (as soon as ever we could attend to any thing) we hung up the leathern bag of tools, which had done much more toward saving the life of Uncle Sam than I did for this had served as a kind of kedge, or drag, upon his little craft, retarding it from the great roll of billows, in which he must have been drowned outright. verb intransitive, of a vessel To move with the help of a kedge, as described above.verb transitive To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.noun nautical A small anchor used for warping a vessel also called a kedge anchor.t., and anchor, n.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun (Naut.) A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed with.intransitive verb (Naut.) To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.noun A small anchor with an iron stock.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.To move by being pulled along with the aid of an anchor.To warp, as a ship move by means of a light cable or hawser attached to an anchor, as in a river.intransitive verb To move by means of a light anchor.intransitive verb To warp (a vessel) by means of a light anchor.noun A light anchor used for warping a vessel.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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