Kedge: alternatives and connections

A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a…

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a saili…

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat,…

An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a littl…

Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.

The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.

To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the win…

A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.

The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.

A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.

To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.

To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing…

A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard; -- also called reef earing.

To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.

Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.

A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.

A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.