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A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
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n. & a.
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
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 which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
n.
One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
n.
See Hawser.
n.
That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
n.
A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
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.
A mooring hawser.
n.
A hawse hole.
v. t.
To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
a.
Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.
n.
The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.
a.
Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
n.
A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
v.
A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
n.
To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
n.
A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
n.
A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable.
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