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Webster 1913 Edition
Hawse
Hawse
(ha̤z or ha̤s; 277)
, Noun.
1.
A hawse hole.
Harris.
2.
(Naut.)
(a)
The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
(b)
The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend;
as, the ship has a clear or open
hawse
, or a foul hawse
; to anchor in our hawse
, or athwart hawse
. (c)
That part of a vessel’s bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
Athwart hawse
. See under
– Athwart
. Foul hawse
, a hawse in which the cables cross each other, or are twisted together.
– Hawse block
, a block used to stop up a hawse hole at sea; – called also
– hawse plug
. Hawse piece
, one of the foremost timbers of a ship, through which the hawse hole is cut.
– Hawse plug
. Same as
– Hawse block
(above). To come in at the hawse holes
, to enter the naval service at the lowest grade.
[Cant]
– To freshen the hawse
, to veer out a little more cable and bring the chafe and strain on another part.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hawse
HAWSE
,Noun.