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Definition of Hawser
1. Noun. Large heavy rope for nautical use.
Definition of Hawser
1. n. A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
Definition of Hawser
1. Noun. (nautical) a cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hawser
1. a mooring rope [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawser
Literary usage of Hawser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1876)
"With the hawser a light but stout lino also is dragged out to the ship. ...
he ropes attached to the life-car are slipped upon the hawser. ..."
2. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1873)
"Attached to the sling is a traveller or inverted block with a brass sheave or
wheel through which the end of the hawser has been led before being sent off. ..."
3. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1896)
"... of a Crete Gamete with a pendente Also an hawser ... for the seid Crete Garnette
An hawser ... of ij lyftes for the mayne sayle Also an hawser of iiij ..."
4. Naval Accounts and Inventories of the Reign of Henry VII: 1485-8 and 1495-7 by Michael Oppenheim (1896)
"... of a Grete Gamete with a pendente Also an hawser ... for the seid Grete Garnette
An hawser ... of ij lyftes for the mayne sayle Also an hawser of iiij ..."
5. Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California by California Supreme Court, Bancroft-Whitney Company, California, Supreme Court (1875)
"While the defendant was towing the plaintiffs schooner across the bar, the hawser
by which the schooner was attached to the tug parted, and the plaintiff's ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Those orders were so far carried into effect that the propel 1er passed on her
course without injury, but the barge was dragged by the hawser directly ..."
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