Kedge
- v. t. A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n.
- n. To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.