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Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Preserver of Guru
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit, Tamil
Knowledge; Intelligence
Boy/Male
Hindu
Destiny
Boy/Male
English
Stiles.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Giving Nature; Faithful; Knowledge
Boy/Male
Biblical
The sleeping of God.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Moon of Victory
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Mason; Architect
Boy/Male
German, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian
A Man from Judah; A Jew; Praise of the Lord
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Source of Bliss
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n.
A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
n. & a.
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
a.
Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.
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.
a.
Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
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.
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.
One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
See Hawser.
n.
That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
n.
A mooring 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.
The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
n.
A hawse hole.
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.