Definition of Kedge:

part of speech: noun

A small anchor used to keep a ship steady in a harbour or river, particularly at the time of the tide, or to remove her from one part to another.

Usage examples:

• The captain throws out a kedge anchor, and in a mysterious way we pull ourselves off by hawsers, as a man lifts himself by his own boot- straps. Agnes Deans Cameron in "The New North".