Hawse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The part of a ship where the hawseholes are located.
  • n. A hawsehole.
  • n. The space between the bows and anchors of an anchored ship.
  • n. The arrangement of a ship's anchor cables when both starboard and port anchors are secured.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The part of the bow containing the hawseholes.
  • n. A hawsehole or hawsepipe.
  • n. The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s).
  • adj. A position relative to the course and position of a vessel, somewhat forward of the stem.
  • ad. Said of a vessel lying to two anchors, streamed from either bow.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A hawse hole.
  • n.
  • n. The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
  • n. The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend
  • n. That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That part of a vessel's bow where the holes for her cables to pass through are cut: now used chiefly in phrases describing the condition of a vessel's chains when she is moored with both starboard and port anchors down.
  • n. The space between the ship and her anchors: as, he was anchored in our hawse; the brig fell foul of our hawse, etc.
  • To raise.
  • n. Exaltation.
  • n. A Scotch form of halse.
  • n. A ridge or neck (generally at the head of two oppositely-descending stream-valleys) which connects two higher ridges or summits, as on the Scottish border and in the Lake district of the North of England.
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  • n. the hole that an anchor rope passes through
  • Verb Form
    hawses   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hole   
    Synonym
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    bowl   
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