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hawse
[ hawz, haws ]
noun
- the part of a bow where the hawseholes are located.
- a hawsehole or hawsepipe.
- the distance or space between the bow of an anchored vessel and the point on the surface of the water above the anchor.
- the relative position or arrangement of the port and starboard anchor cables when both are used to moor a vessel.
verb (used without object)
- (of a vessel) to pitch heavily at anchor.
hawse
/ hɔːz /
noun
- the part of the bows of a vessel where the hawseholes are
- the distance from the bow of an anchored vessel to the anchor
- the arrangement of port and starboard anchor ropes when a vessel is riding on both anchors
verb
- intr (of a vessel) to pitch violently when at anchor
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hawse1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hawse1
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Idioms and Phrases
- to hawse, with both bow anchors out:
a ship riding to hawse.
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Example Sentences
Little more than an hour before midnight another craft was observed driving down on the hawse of the Gull.
A breeze at nightfall fanned her along, and when her killick went down, the rusty chain groaned querulously from her hawse-hole.
Dat's de fines' hawse dat dis chile ebber seen, an' I'se gwan ter watch ober heem lek he wus de apple ob mah eye.
He had given the order to slip the cable, and he could hear the rattle of the chain as it passed out through the hawse-hole.
As the anchor came up to the hawse-hole, the jib filled, and the vessel began to move.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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