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Definition of Hawsepipe
1. Noun. The hole that an anchor rope passes through.
Definition of Hawsepipe
1. Noun. a hawsehole ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hawsepipe
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawsepipe
Literary usage of Hawsepipe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1869)
"There wasn'ta hand aboard the old frigate saved but the boy hawsepipe, and he
was killed many a year ago.' " For the first time in my life I saw a real look ..."
2. Seaville: A Blue Water Adventure by Richard Miller (2004)
"From the overhead of the locker thrust the end of a hawsepipe into which the
chain rose to continue upward through the forepeak to the deck, ..."
3. Rudder by Thomas Fleming Day (1912)
"It is only when you have chain, and a proper wildcat windlass, and use a stockless
anchor, and pull it right into the hawsepipe that you can rest secure. ..."
4. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Privy Council (1905)
"... near the hawsepipe, the patent anchor in the hawsepipe b*ing driven right
through the bow of The ..."
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