meaning of hawse
1. A hawse hole.
2. The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
3. 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.
4. That part of a vessels bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
5. the hole that an anchor rope passes through
Related Words
hawse | hawsehole | hawsepipe | hawser | hawser bend | hawser-laid |
