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n. A light anchor used for warping a vessel.

v. To warp (a vessel) by means of a light anchor.

verb-intransitive. To move by means of a light anchor.

n. A small anchor used for warping a vessel; also called a kedge anchor.

n. A glutton.

v. To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.

v. To move with the help of a kedge, as described above.

verb-intransitive. To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.

n. A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed with. See kedge, v. t., and anchor, n.

To warp, as a ship; move by means of a light cable or hawser attached to an anchor, as in a river.

To move by being pulled along with the aid of an anchor.

n. A small anchor with an iron stock.

Brisk; lively.

Stout; potbellied.

Also kedgy.

To fill; stuff.

"In a sacred corner (as soon as ever we could attend to any thing) we hung up the leathern bag of tools, which had done much more toward saving the life of Uncle Sam than I did; for this had served as a kind of kedge, or drag, upon his little craft, retarding it from the great roll of billows, in which he must have been drowned outright."

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