Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cable or rope used in mooring or towing a ship.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a cable; especially, a small cable, or a large rope in size between a cable and a tow-line, used in warping, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
- noun a calking iron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical a
cable orheavy rope used totow ormoor aship
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large heavy rope for nautical use
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The word hawser has nothing whatever to do with the verb to hoist; neither does the ` N.E.D. 'say that it has.
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The hawser is a thick rope, or cable, to which the lifebuoy is suspended when in action.
Battles with the Sea 1859
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I was concerned that the standard garage door was not secure enough and wanted to give him extra locking facility for the cycle - so I screwed a padlock type hasp into the wall inside the garage - then provided a steel 'hawser' type rope (from a cycle shop) for him to lock the bike up to, which threaded through the large hasp.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2009
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While this was being done, the boat plied back and forth between the two vessels, passing a heavy hawser, which was made fast to the great towing-bitts on the schooner's forecastle-head.
The Lost Poacher 2010
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Wriggling close to the hawser, he opened his jack-knife and went to work.
The Lost Poacher 2010
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I, too, by this time, was standing on the big hawser-bitts in a position to see a man in the water who seemed deliberately swimming away from the ship.
CHAPTER III 2010
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Instead, however, I gave her still more hawser, veered her, and dropped the second anchor.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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He saw the Mary Thomas swing abruptly into line as she took the pressure from the hawser, and her side-lights, red and green, rose and fell as she was towed through the sea.
The Lost Poacher 2010
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By two in the morning our shrouds were thrumming in a piping breeze, and I got up and gave her more scope on her hawser.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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We bent all our spare lines; we unrove sheets and halyards; we used our two-inch hawser; we fastened lines part way up the mast, half way up, and everywhere else.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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