Crossword-Solution: KEDGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Kedge | n. | To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. |
| Kedge | v. t. | A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “KEDGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| move vessel | 1 answer |
| move (a ship) using cable attached to an anchor | 1 answer |
| Type of anchor. | 1 answer |
| Light anchor | 1 answer |
| MOVE by hawser attached to small anchor (of ship) | 1 answer |
| Tow, as by an anchor chain | 1 answer |
| Small anchor | 2 answers |
| change position | 6 answers |
| ANCHOR PLANT | 10 answers |
| A LIGHT IN THE RIGGING OF A SHIP THAT IS RIDING AT ANCHOR | 10 answers |
| AN ANCHOR USED FOR SEMIPERMANENT MOORINGS | 10 answers |
| ANCHOR SOUND | 10 answers |
| A LIGHT ANCHOR FOR SMALL BOATS | 10 answers |
| anchor ring | 11 answers |
| ANCHOR DOMAIN | 11 answers |
| Haul | 38 answers |
| Warp | 46 answers |
| Anchor | 50 answers |
| Navigate | 51 answers |
| Move | 93 answers |
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Sentences with KEDGE (5)
The kedge-anchor was immediately let go, to hold her till the floating buoy and broken chain should be got on board.
But while this was in operation the hawser of the kedge was chafed through on the rocky bottom and parted, when the vessel was again adrift.
Would you believe it? He wanted to take a length of old stream-cable and a kedge-anchor with him in the long-boat.
All were moored, as is the custom in Apia, with two anchors practically east and west, clear hawse to the north, and a kedge astern.
She was safe at sea again--_una de multis_--with a damaged foreyard, and a loss of all the ornamental work about her bow and stern, three anchors, one kedge-anchor, fourteen lengths of chain, four boats, the jib-boom, bobstay, and bands and fastenings of the bowsprit.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1959–2012).