hawse, hawsehole, hawsepipe
(noun) the hole that an anchor rope passes through
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hawse (plural hawses)
(nautical) The part of the bow containing the hawseholes.
(nautical) A hawsehole or hawsepipe.
(nautical) The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s).
hawse (not comparable)
(nautical) In a position relative to the course and position of a vessel, somewhat forward of the stem.
hawse (not comparable)
(nautical, of a vessel) Lying to two anchors, streamed from either bow.
hawse (third-person singular simple present hawses, present participle hawsing, simple past and past participle hawsed)
(intransitive, nautical, of a vessel) To lie uneasily to an anchor, typically due to a weather tide.
• Hawes, shewa
Source: Wiktionary
Hawse, n. Etym: [Orig. a hawse hole, or hole in the ship; cf. Icel. hals, hals, neck, part of the bows of a ship, AS. heals neck. See Collar, and cf. Halse to embrace.]
1. A hawse hole. Harris.
2. (Naut.) (a) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow. (b) 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. (c) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables. Athwart hawse. See under Athwart.
– Foul hawse, a hawse in which the cables cross each other, or are twisted together.
– Hawse block, a block used to stop up a hawse hole at sea; -- called also hawse plug.
– Hawse hole, a hole in the bow of a ship, through which a cable passes.
– Hawse piece, one of the foremost timbers of a ship, through which the hawse hole is cut.
– Hawse plug. Same as Hawse block (above).
– To come in at the hawse holes, to enter the naval service at the lowest grade. [Cant] -- To freshen the hawse, to veer out a little more cable and bring the chafe and strain on another part.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
