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Definition of Hawse
1. Noun. The hole that an anchor rope passes through.
Definition of Hawse
1. n. A hawse hole.
Definition of Hawse
1. Noun. (nautical) The part of the bow containing the hawseholes. ¹
2. Noun. (nautical) A hawsehole or hawsepipe. ¹
3. Noun. (nautical) The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s). ¹
4. Adjective. (nautical) A position relative to the course and position of a vessel, somewhat forward of the stem. ¹
5. Adverb. (nautical) Said of a vessel lying to two anchors, streamed from either bow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hawse
1. a part of a ship's bow [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawse
Literary usage of Hawse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"If a vessel drives at her anchors into the hawse of another she is said to "foul
... A bold hawse is when the holes are high above the water. "Freshen hawse ..."
2. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1866)
"Another cross makes an dhow, then a round turn', in the. last two cases the hawse
is said to be font. The process of disengaging the cables is called ..."
3. An Universal Etymological English Dictionary ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1724)
"A-FRESH hawse, ГЛ*Г*пв] is When there is ... RIDING UPON THE hawse, Г St» T'' ™
J is when any weighty Sub- pan. ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"\Vhen a ship is moored she is said to have a clear hawse when the chains lead
from the hawse-pipes to the anchors without touching each other. ..."
5. A Naval Encyclopædia: Comprising a Dictionary of Nautical Words and Phrases (1880)
"hawse. The situation of the cables when the ship is moored with an anchor on each
bow. That portion of a vessel's bow through which the hawse-holes are cut. ..."
6. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"A vessel moored, and riding by either anchor, having the cables clear of each
other, " rides with a clear hawse." If her head is in a line between tho two ..."
7. Sun and Saddle Leather: Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems by Badger Clark (1922)
"Oh, hawse work! the sweep and the drift of it! hawse work! the leap and the lift
of it! Who wants to fly in the empty blue sky When he kin ride on the hawse ..."
8. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1910)
"A vessel moored has a " clear hawse " when her cables lead off on their ...
She has a " foul hawse " when they are crossed or otherwise foul of each other. ..."
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