AI & ChatGPT searches , social queries for HAWS
What is the name meaning of HAWS. Phrases containing HAWS
See name meanings and uses of HAWS!
What is the name meaning of HAWS. Phrases containing HAWS
See name meanings and uses of HAWS!HAWS
HAWS
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Son of Imam Muslim had this Name
Boy/Male
Muslim
(A son of iama Muslim had this Name)
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the various places bearing this name, for example in Essex (Haltesteda in Domesday Book), Kent, and Leicestershire, all of which are probably named from Old English h(e)ald ‘refuge’, ‘shelter’ + stede ‘site’, or possibly Hawstead in Suffolk, which has the same origin. However, the name is now most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where it is from High Halstead in Burnley, named as the ‘site of a hall’, from Old English h(e)all ‘hall’ + stede ‘place’.English : occupational name for someone employed at ‘the hall buildings’, Middle English hallested, an ostler or cowhand, for instance.
Surname or Lastname
Possibly an altered spelling of Haase.English
Possibly an altered spelling of Haase.English : variant spelling of Hawes.
Surname or Lastname
Possibly an altered spelling of Haas.English
Possibly an altered spelling of Haas.English : variant spelling of Hawes.
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
A son of Iama Muslim had this name
HAWS
HAWS
HAWS
HAWS
HAWS
HAWS
HAWS
a.
Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
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.
n.
A mooring 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.
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.
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.
a.
Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.
n.
See Hawser.
n.
One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
n.
That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
n. & a.
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
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.
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.
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 hawse hole.
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.
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.
n.
A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
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.