Hawse
[hɒ:z]
Definition
(n.) A hawse hole.
(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.) 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.
(n.) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
Typist: Oliver
Definition
n. the part of a vessel's bow in which the hawse-holes are cut.—n.pl. Hawse′-holes the holes in a ship's bow through which the cables pass.—ns. Hawse′-pipe an iron pipe fitted into a hawse-hole to save the wood; Hawse′-tim′ber one of the upright timbers in the bow in which the hawse-holes are cut.
Edited by Bertram