单词 | kedge |
释义 | kedgen. = kedge-anchor n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > kedge-anchor kedger1497 kedge-anchor1704 catch1759 kedge1769 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Kedge, a small anchor, used to keep a ship steddy whilst she rides in a harbour or river, particularly at the turn of the tide... The kedges are also..useful in transporting a ship, i.e. removing her from one part of the harbour to another, by means of ropes. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. ix. 275 The schooner every now and then taking the ground, but she was always quickly warped off again by a kedge. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 22 The other moiety of the men, tugging hard on kedge and haulser, drew the vessel off. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). kedgeadj. East Anglian dialect. Brisk, lively; in good spirits. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > lively, vivacious, or animated jollyc1325 lightsomea1382 kedgec1440 fledge?1461 crank1499 frisky?a1500 sprightya1522 frisk1528 sprightful1550 quick-spirited1552 cranking1567 lively1567 quick-sprighted1579 aleger1590 bright-eyed1590 firking1594 sprightly1594 spirituous1601 great-stomached1607 spirity1615 spiritous1628 lifesomec1635 vivacious1645 rattlingc1650 quick-set1653 airy1654 animated1660 sparklinga1704 bob1721 vivace1721 animate1801 high-lifed1859 sassy1859 chippy1865 sparky1883 high-keyed1893 high life1903 peppy1914 pepful1915 jazzy1917 upbeat1947 zappy1969 sparkly1979 the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > spiritedness or liveliness > [adjective] jollyc1325 kedgec1440 fledge?1461 frisky?a1500 sprightya1522 frisk1528 sprightful1550 quick-spirited1552 lively1567 quick-sprighted1579 alive-like1582 aleger1590 firking1594 sprightly1594 sportive1595 mettled1599 alives-like1601 spirited1601 spirituous1601 mettle1606 great-stomached1607 free-spirited1613 spirity1615 spiritous1628 vivacious1645 rattlingc1650 sportful1650 airy1654 animated1660 racy1671 mettlesome1673 sparklinga1704 raffing?1719 bob1721 vivace1721 alive1748 lifey1793 spunky1831 gilpie1835 bubbling1860 chippy1865 bubblesome1879 colourful1882 sparky1883 bubbly1912 jazzy1917 spritzy1973 sparkly1979 kicking1983 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 274/2 Kygge, or ioly (H. kydge, P. kyde), jocundus, hillaris, vernosus. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 69 Kedge, brisk, budge, lively, Suff. 1802 R. Bloomfield Rural Tales 7 I'm surely growing young again: I feel myself so kedge and plump. 1829 H. Murray Hist. Acct. Discoveries & Trav. N. Amer. II. iii. iii. 367 Are his spirits kedge? 1856 in W. S. Simpson's Life (1899) 30 I ain't so well to-day as I was yesterday: I was quite kidge then. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). kedgev. Nautical. intransitive. a. To warp a ship, or move it from one position to another by winding in a hawser attached to a small anchor dropped at some distance; also transitive to warp. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propel boat other than by sail or oars [verb (intransitive)] > by hauling on anchor kedge1627 society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propel boat other than by sail or oars [verb (intransitive)] > by hauling on anchor > proceed by kedging kedge1627 society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propel boat other than by sail or oars [verb (transitive)] > by hauling on anchor kedge1897 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 29 The least are called Kedgers, to vse in calme weather..or to kedg vp and downe a narrow Riuer. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) To Kedge, to set up the Foresail or Foretopsail and Missen, and set a Ship to drive with the Tide [1706 letting fall, and lifting up the Kedge-Anchor, as often as Occasion serves] when in a narrow River we would bring her up or down, the Wind being contrary to the Tide. 1897 tr. F. Nansen Farthest North I. 166 We ‘kedged’ the Fram with her anchor just clear of the bottom. b. Of a ship: To move by means of kedging. ΚΠ 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiv. 75 She went to windward as though she were kedging. Derivatives kedging n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > [noun] > by hauling on anchor kedging1485 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 52 Cables..vj, Caggering [sic] cables..j. 1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 12 A caggeyng cable weying ml c iij quarterons. 1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 18 Caggyng cable..j. 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 192 Kaggyng Ankers..ij. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 290 Ankers of diuerse sortes..Caggyng Ankers j, Warpyng Ankers j. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 29 They row by her with an Anchor in a boat, and..so by a Hawser winde her head about,..and this is kedging. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) They..let fall [a small anchor] in the middle of the Stream, and so wend or turn her Head about, lifting the Anchor up again... This work is called Kedging,..and the Anchor..the Kedger, or Kedge-Anchor. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own III. ii. 36 I presume you are not used to kedging, captain. 1891 Times 24 Oct. 6/6 That he had, during a calm, propelled the Minnow by means of kedging. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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