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


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