Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawses
Literary usage of Hawses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"hawses, two large round holes in a ship under the beak, through which the cables
pass when the ship lies at anchor;' Kersey, ed. 1715. ..."
2. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"Fresh the hawse," that is, lay new pieces upon the cable in the hawses, ...
the hawes," is disentangling two cables that come through different hawses. ..."
3. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp, Brooke Heckstall-Smith (1900)
"Freeh the hawse " is an order to lay new pieces upon the cable in the hawses to
preserve it from fretting. [The above two terms are applied to hemp cables. ..."
4. New Monologues and Dialect Stories: A Collection of New Stories, Monologues by Mary Moncure Parker (1908)
"Somebody told about a feller that walked in his sleep an' then Hi piped up an'
said he had gone out an' hitched up the hawses an' plowed several fur- rers ..."
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