kedge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small anchor used for warping a vessel.

   “...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.”

2. isim A glutton.
3. fiil To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
4. fiil To move with the help of a kedge, as described above.

   “By noon the men had loaded the cargo & Prophetess was kedging out of the bay against unfavourable winds.”