He wanted to take a length of old stream-cable and a kedge-anchor with him in the long-boat. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And close to us, beginning to bend away towards that hissing knot in the north-west, wound our poor little channel, mercilessly exposed as a stagnant, muddy ditch with scarcely a foot of water, not deep enough to hide our small kedge-anchor, which perked up one fluke in impudent mockery. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)
Like lightning he had cast off the dinghy's painter, tumbled the kedge-anchor and himself into the dinghy, pulled out fifty yards into the deeper water, and heaved out the anchor. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)
The pinnace and long-boats, booms and spars, were immediately sent over the side, and the kedge-anchor was placed in the long-boat; but she leaked so very fast, that with all the united efforts of the seamen they could not keep her above water. ❋ W. B. Cramp (N/A)
He hurried aft to the sail-locker, got a warp, and bent it to the kedge-anchor. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1939)
They got the dinghy up on deck and capsized her over the broken skylight in her sea-going position; then they set up the mainsail and got the kedge-anchor. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1939)
A motor-boat came out to meet them, as at Wootton; before it had time to intercept them Corbett had anchored with his kedge-anchor and warp. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1939)
Next morning a kedge-anchor (about five hundred-weights) was lowered with the remainder of the chain. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)
It was U75's only chance, but it left her with only a small stockless kedge-anchor and chain, insufficient to withstand a heavy strain. ❋ Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson (1917)
The kedge-anchor was immediately let go, to hold her till the floating buoy and broken chain should be got on board. ❋ Unknown (1912)
At eleven p.m., there being no wind, the kedge-anchor was LET GO off Anstruther, one of the numerous towns on the coast of Fife, where we waited the return of the tide. ❋ Unknown (1912)
He begun by doing little favors for Phoebe Ann -- she was the deef aunt I mentioned -- and 'twa'n't long afore he was as solid with the old lady as a kedge-anchor. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
Barnacles, who had been moored to a kedge-anchor, watched the next day's proceedings with interest. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)
Getting out the mildewed chart, he laid off his course, carefully trimmed and lighted the binnacle lamp, and going up on deck hauled in the kedge-anchor. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)
A kedge-anchor had been lashed to the end of her bowsprit; and, before the British could reload, this crashed through the boarding-nettings of the "Pigot," and caught in the shrouds. ❋ Willis J. Abbot (1898)
