Usually means: Anchor used to maneuver ships.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. kedge: Merriam-Webster
  2. kedge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kedge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kedge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Kedge, kedge: Wordnik
  6. kedge: Wiktionary
  7. kedge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. kedge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. kedge: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Kedge, kedge: Dictionary.com
  11. Kedge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. kedge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Kedge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. kedge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. KEDGE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  16. kedge: FreeDictionary.org
  17. kedge: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. kedge: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kedge: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kedge: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kedge: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. kedge: Master Mariner
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Kedge: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (kedge)

noun:  (nautical) A small anchor used for warping a vessel.
noun:  (Yorkshire) A glutton.
verb:  (transitive) To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
verb:  (intransitive, of a vessel) To move with the help of a kedge, as described above.

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