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单词 kedger
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kedgern.

Etymology: < kedge v. + -er suffix1.
Obsolete.
A small anchor or grapnel; = kedge n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > kedge-anchor
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1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 281 Ankers called Caggers.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 16 A streame Anchor, graplings or kedgers.
1630 J. Smith True Trav. 40 They boorded him againe as before; and threw foure kedgers or grapnalls in iron chaines.
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.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Kedging If she come too near the Shore, they have a little Anchor ready, called the Kedger, or Kedge-Anchor, with a Hawser fastened to it from the Ship: and this Anchor they drop in the midst of the Current.
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