HAWSING

Verb

hawsing

present participle of hawse

Anagrams

• Wangshi, hawings, washing

Source: Wiktionary

HAWSE

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