Hawse definitions

Hawse

1) Anchor cable hole 2) Anchor cable opening 3) Anchor rope hole 4) Anchor-cable area 5) Anchor-cable hole 6) Area for anchor cables 7) Bow area 8) Bow hole 9) Bow neck 10) Bow opening 11) Bow part 12) Exclusively Saxon word 13) Exclusively Anglo word 14) Hawsehole 15) Hawsepipe 16) Hole 17) Hole for an anchor cable
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Hawse

1) Hawsehole 2) Hawsepipe
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hawse

distance between ship's bow and its anchor
Found on http://phrontistery.info/h.html

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hawse

distance between ship's bow and its anchor
Found on http://phrontistery.info/nautical.html

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Hawse

• (n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow. • (n.) That part of a vessel`s bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables. • (n.) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor ...
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Hawse

Hawse (haz or has; 277) noun [ Orig. a hawse hole , or hole in the bow of the ship; confer Icelandic hals , hāls , neck, part of the bows of a ship, Anglo-Saxon heals neck. See Collar , and confer Halse to embrace.] 1. A hawse hole. Harris....
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/20

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hawse

[n] - the hole that an anchor rope passes through
Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=hawse

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hawse

hawsehole noun the hole that an anchor rope passes through
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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