Definition of Kedged

1. Verb. (past of kedge) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kedged

1. kedge [v] - See also: kedge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kedged

keckle
keckled
keckles
keckling
kecklings
kecklish
kecks
keckses
kecksies
kecksy
ked
kedani fever
keddah
keddahs
kedge
kedged (current term)
kedger
kedgeree
kedgerees
kedgers
kedges
kedgier
kedgiest
kedging
kedgy
kedlook
keds
keech
keeches
keef

Literary usage of Kedged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"We kedged up to the Prince's moorings and he was to go to ours. ... The wind SW and WSW The Prince kedged up to her moorings. 29 Friday. ..."

2. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society by Buffalo Historical Society (1905)
"Early on the morning of the 2d of August, Mr. Dobbins took charge of the Lawrence as pilot, and kedged her to the entrance of the channel, he having sounded ..."

3. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1847)
"In this position ihe remained for upwards of an hour, when by lightening her she was kedged off, and pursued her way, without having received the slightest ..."

4. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. by Ernest Scott (1914)
"... ship" is an expression which puzzled Professor Flinders Petrie, who appended a note to the Flinders papers, suggesting that it could hardly mean kedged. ..."

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