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Definition of Hawseholes
1. hawsehole [n] - See also: hawsehole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawseholes
Literary usage of Hawseholes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building: The Fundamental by Richard Montgomery Van Gaasbeek (1919)
"One of the upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of the stem in which
the hawseholes are cut. Hawse Wood.—A general name for the hawse timber. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1858)
"Fast as it flowed off by the scuppers, it came in faster by the hawseholes and
ports, while the beams and knees strained with a doleful noise, ..."
3. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp, Brooke Heckstall-Smith (1900)
"The pipes in the hawseholes in the bow through which the cables pass. ...
The large timbers in the bow of ships in which the hawseholes are cut. Hawser. ..."
4. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, During a Four Months' Residence in a by Herman Melville (1850)
"The old ship herself longs to look out upon the land from her hawseholes once
more; and Jack Lewis said right the other day when the captain found fault ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1901)
"While Benbow remained a subordinate officer, the fact that he had entered the
service through the hawseholes, as the saying went, was no serious ..."
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