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.