How To Use hawse In A Sentence
- The bow is equally imposing, with two extremely large anchors still in their hawsers and a great deal of machinery and portholes to see.
- We found the cable cut about two fathoms from the hawsehole.
- But the frigate rallied and righted while the sea streamed below decks, though her hatches were laid and her hawseholes bagged.
- _ -- After two hours fiddling about we managed to attach our fore and aft hawsers to the "Aquitania," and after breakfast we went on board our new home. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"
- Wriggling close to the hawser, he opened his jack-knife and went to work. The Lost Poacher
- The bowsprit was a long, graceful lance, reaching out above his head, but the anchor cable plunged into the water beside him, and he laid a hand on the thick hawser.
- From her pedestal descend branches of gold, which also encircle the hawsehole.
- The hawser is a thick rope, or cable, to which the lifebuoy is suspended when in action. Battles with the Sea
- As the chain roared and surged through the hawse-pipe he noticed a number of native women, lusciously large as only those of Polynesia are, in flowing ahu's, flower-crowned, stream out on the deck of the schooner on the beach. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
- 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
