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Definition of Kedged
1. kedge [v] - See also: kedge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kedged
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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