What is the name meaning of HAWSE. Phrases containing HAWSE
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Biblical
roof; covering
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Lord of Perfection
Boy/Male
British, Christian, English
People; Tribe
Girl/Female
Latin
Unwilling.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Tiny
Boy/Male
British, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Wish
Boy/Male
Australian, Christian, German, Swedish, Teutonic
Wolf-shield; Noble Wolf; Famous Wolf; Wolf Fame; Form of Randolph
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Day (1 and 2).
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Kayley, KALEIGH means "slender."
Male
Hindi/Indian
(पà¥à¤°à¤®à¥‹à¤¦) Hindi name PRAMOD means "happiness, joy."
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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.
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.
n.
A mooring hawser.
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.
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.
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 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.
One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
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 hawse hole.
n.
That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
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.
To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
a.
Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
n.
See Hawser.
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.