hawse-hole

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When I knocked the shackle-bolt loose, the chain roared out through the hawse-hole and into the sea.

Chapter 39 2010
The snotty had wriggled on his stomach to the hawse-hole.

Movie Night 2010
The Bolinder motor hummed, and the heavy cable rattled in through the hawse-hole.

The South Pole~ On the Way to the South 2009
The cable of the anchor has been run out, and its service is no longer at the hawse-hole.

The Mysterious Island 2005
The cable of the anchor has been run out, and its service is no longer at the hawse-hole.

The Mysterious Island 2005
Bolinder motor hummed, and the heavy cable rattled in through the hawse-hole.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
The glowing metal raced through the hawse-hole; clouds of steam hissed up where it entered the water.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
"I once had a Captain who'd come up through the hawse-hole, " he told Sharpe, -and he was damned good!

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
Clinging to the thick rope, he wrapped his legs around it and crawled forward toward the hawse-hole that gaped in the ship's side.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993
They could, after all, have seen the phantom from out the hawse-hole, located in the hull through which the cable passed.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993