How To Use Hawse In A Sentence
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The bow is equally imposing, with two extremely large anchors still in their hawsers and a great deal of machinery and portholes to see.
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We found the cable cut about two fathoms from the hawsehole.
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But the frigate rallied and righted while the sea streamed below decks, though her hatches were laid and her hawseholes bagged.
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_ -- 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"
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Wriggling close to the hawser, he opened his jack-knife and went to work.
The Lost Poacher
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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.
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From her pedestal descend branches of gold, which also encircle the hawsehole.
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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
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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
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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.
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Their two friends came down with food and drink, and the smell of sea coming in through the hawseholes in the bow was like an elixir of freedom.
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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
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The hands, realising the danger, turned to with a will, but within five minutes the first breath of the squall caught us, and sent us ahead, as was evident by the way the slackened cable came in through the hawsepipe.
"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
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Spring and stern cleats hide under the gunwales with hawseholes above, and the transom also boasts a sink and rigging station and tuna door.
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Mad'e. de Stael Holstein has lost one of her young barons [2], who has been carbonadoed by a vile Teutonic adjutant, -- kilt and killed in a coffee-house at Scrawsenhawsen.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
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I can't remember any deer in the country but Mr. Duvall yousta tell me 'bout 'em an 'bout the way they had their hawses trained.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives
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Cut out the hullsides and make the hawseholes at the bow.
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May 27, 2008 at 7:01 pm i livzes in cambryidge wiv all da hawses an trees
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The anchor chains rumbled through hawsepipes.
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Now Aeson's son, as soon as his comrades had made the hawsers fast, leapt from the ship, and with spear and shield came forth to the contest; and at the same time he took the gleaming helmet of bronze filled with sharp teeth, and his sword girt round his shoulders, his body stripped, in somewise resembling Ares and in somewise Apollo of the golden sword.
The Argonautica
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She had then only to be steered very close to the buoy, when the salvagee was laid hold of with a boat-hook, and the BITE of the hawser thrown over the cross-head.
Records of a Family of Engineers
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She spent much of the day patrolling the decks and peeking through the hawseholes at passers-by.
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With this design, water passing up the hawsepipe went to the main deck, rather than below deck.
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Over their coffee, they heard the rumble of an anchor-chain through a hawse-pipe, tokening the arrival of a vessel.
A GOBOTO NIGHT
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The muscles writhed and swelled over his back and shoulders, leapt up in knotted strands like leathery hawsers from his shoulders down to his raw and bleeding wrists; a convulsion of superhuman power swept over his torso like the shock of an earthquake.
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Fortunately, her dogs were tied to a tree by what appeared to be old tug hawsers.
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The next hour was spent in shoving and pulling at slippery black bodies in a darkness only less black, in tripping over hawsers and barking our shins on crates and bollards.
Try Anything Twice
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Apart from the anchor locker's lack of a hawsehole and the too-low railings, we couldn't find much to quibble about.
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The anchor is now stored touching the hull in three places and seated in the top of the hawsepipe.
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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
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The captain and his crew abandoned ship in the boats and ran a hawser to anchor the Shuna's bow to the shore.
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Examining the port side, the anchor chain can be seen to hang down from the hawsepipe a foot or so and then abruptly end without an anchor.
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I'll teach them to come across my hawse.
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August 7, 2008 at 2:13 pm mai unklol wunst had teh scunk naymed Oreo, after hers faborite treet. her waz full of teh kyoot and win. wen ai spended teh nite, her wuld get teh mad scunks dunt lyke teh change much at awl, gets teh mad bout noo peeplolz in deyr hawses adn wuld stamp up adn down teh hall awl nite. her was full of dorable!
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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.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
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These here hawses are in purty fair condition, and I'd aim to keep 'em in flesh whilst I was breakin '
Skyrider
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When a ship is moored, she is often thought to be in such a state of security, that the keeping a clear hawse is too often neglected.
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The ship's hawseholes shot water out the sides like fire-hydrants.
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A fiber cable-laid rope is composed of three strands of hawser-laid rope, twisted right-handed.
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The docks were littered with greasy, untidily coiled hawsers, tools, cargo and refuse.
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And I don't guess, Mr. Selmer, you'll see none of yore hawses again, unless mebby it's the last ones they took.
Skyrider
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Ai be finkin, if yu nawt want wurrees pleez to nawt be habbin kids an kittehs, adn goggies, adn hawses, adn pinny gigs, adn huzbins, adn….
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The steeply sloping reef was covered in a jumble of steel hawser, deck plates, twisted girder and hand-rail.
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The monkey bridge is constructed using two sheer legs and bridged with a hawser and handrails secured using pickets.
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Can't let you stay long or we'll git all stiffened up, but Chuck Goodwin, down to Caroca, he knows hawses an 'he's a pal of mine.
Rimrock Trail
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The bow anchors are nice and secure in their hawseholes.
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bitts," a strong iron structure placed between the hawse and navel
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Spring cleats are out of the way beneath stainless-rimmed hawseholes and, like the aft cleats, are the beefy version of eight-inchers.
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When its value was proven aboard the giant rigs, it was scaled down for use aboard smaller craft where its lack of moving parts and stockless design makes it easy to stow in a bow hawsehole.
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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
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Many of the ship's 625 passengers peered at the spectacle below, as the ship was moored along the pier and held by thick hawsers.
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U goana see teh Cat Heed Rail an awl teh wunnermus oooooold hawses?
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Nothing would suit Nelson but this four-decked ship, so we crossed the hawse of about six of them, and were abreast of her.
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Now if it was _me_ that was stealin 'these hawses -- say, s'posin' I was aimin 'to sell 'em over across the line -- I'd aim to take the best I could git holt of, because I'd be wanting 'em for good, all-round, tough saddle hawses.
Skyrider
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The hook held the anchor chain so that it was slack on the bow roller, while the two eye-splices were passed through two hawses.
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Little children and inquisitive young ladies are knocked down or blackened in coiling the hawser, by “hands” who, being nothing but _hands_, evidently cannot say, “I beg your pardon, miss.”
The Englishwoman in America
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The model includes the main hawseholes by the fore and aft ends of the well deck and the one on the bow.
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Thus for this purpose a mainsail is a piece of jute bagging, if you please, or ordinary canvas, and a hawser is a flexible rope.
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
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Instead, however, I gave her still more hawser, veered her, and dropped the second anchor.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING
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I don't believe anyone makes stainless hawses for these winches, so there is a bit of a gap in the market.
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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
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The anchor cable plunged into the water beside him, and he laid a hand on the thick hawser.
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Supposing I were in all secretness to cut the hawser mooring one of those ships?
Hunger
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Bub" Russell, the cabin boy, is taken aboard the Russian cruiser and in the darkness lays down near the hawser and works on it with a jack-knife.
“The way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know. . .”
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These memories dealt with a remote time, when a hawse was a hawse, and you couldn't have it put all over you by a lot of slick young smarties that could do a few things with a monkey wrench.
The Wrong Twin
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Like an avalanche, she shot forward and down as the sea astern struck her with the force of a thousand battering rams, burying her bow to the catheads in the milky foam at the bottom that came on deck in all directions - forward, astern, to right and left, through the hawse-pipes and over the rail.
Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
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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
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The ocean geysers through a two-foot hawsehole as the ship buries its bows in the base of a wave.
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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
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Oh, Eubie, Hawseeillustrate rezentlee hed ardicle about seenyer peeps hu raid -sum naud ebben stard till oller den 70!
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The _Chesapeake_ swung slowly, broadside to the first of the ebb and with the wind on her port beam, Mr. Gibney knocked out the stopper with his trusty hammer and away went the rusty chain, singing through the hawsepipe.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
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He had brought with him the bo'sun and the carpenter, his own mate, the bo'sun's mate and the carpenter's mate, four P. O.'s, the sergeant of Marines, a few leading stokers and half-a-dozen hands; fifty fathoms of hawser-laid four-inch white rope; six stout stakes (ash); bags, canvas, twelve (one to collect the tickets earned by each division); and one thousand eight hundred tickets, numbered from one to one thousand eight hundred.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919
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Repairs to the port and starboard side hawseholes were completed so that the ship could be moved in the event of a storm.
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The bow is impressive and very photogenic, with the exposed starboard anchor still housed and its hawser and mooring bollards easily distinguishable.
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The towing hawsers also had to be kept under constant surveillance.
Times, Sunday Times
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I need to find a way to make the two anchor chain hawses water tight.
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I can hear the chorus chanting, "Move On," and I am telling myself, too, Come On, Giddyup Girl, Move dat hawse on down the road!
Sally Fay: Dealing With The Rough Ride Of Divorce
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To see these hawses in use, check out the Titanic sea trial photos.
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Wriggling close to the hawser, he opened his jack-knife and went to work.
The Lost Poacher
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The _No. 5_ heaved anchor, the chain clanking and chattering in a hawsepipe.
Poor Man's Rock
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I removed all of the hawsepipes, stainless steel fittings and rod holders to polish them.
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Then, having got the first gun on deck -- already prepared in Port Royal dockyard, by being encased in a stout cylindrical packing of planks -- we passed the bights of our two hawsers round it, one at each end, and with all hands tailing on -- except one, whom we set to watch as a sentinel -- proceeded to parbuckle it up the face of the cliff.
A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
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He managed to get a line and hawser ashore, across which some 40 men scrambled to safety.
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There was an Italian grapevine roof, a French parterre of boxwood, lobelia, and shiny black coal, and oak columns recently dredged from Boston Harbor garlanded with a ship's hawser and clematis.
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Thicker hawsers followed, and it took no more than a few minutes to wrap them around the mooring bollards.
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With a hammer he knocked out the stopper; the starboard anchor dropped and the red rust flew from her hawsepipe as the anchor chain screamed through it.
Cappy Ricks Retires
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We picked up the rope immediately: a hefty old hawser that leads you out from the shore for about 100m.
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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
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We doesn't ingen'ally put blinders on de saddle hawses, Miss, but ef yer says so I'll tak 'em long back ter de stables an 'change de saddle headstalls fer de _kerridge_ ones, tho' it sure would look mighty cur'ous.
A Dixie School Girl
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These five ships at once anchored in the best positions consistent with their own safety to help us; the "Kerguelen" a little on our starboard quarter, and the "Champlain" right astern with our steel hawsers on board and two anchors down.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
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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
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The owner was extremely pleased with the boat's handling, performance and soft ride, despite seeing water flowing through the hawseholes during some particularly rough sections of the trip home.
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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
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An anchor line is fed through the hawsepipe.
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The aesthetic benefit of bulwarks derives from the scuppers and hawseholes cut into them.
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Just nearby is a huge anchor, hanging from the hawsehole.
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Even as he spoke, they heard the rumble of chain through hawse-pipe, and from the veranda saw a big black-painted schooner, swinging to her just-caught anchor.
Chapter 14
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A glaring omission, though, is the lack of a hawsepipe or hawsehole.
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She came along handsomely, with foam to the hawsepipe, thanks to the freshening breeze, and her main royal and topgallantsail clewing up as she approached, for our signal had been seen; then drove close alongside with her topsail aback and in a few minutes we were aboard, shaking hands with Captain Blow, and all others who extended a fist to us, and spinning our yarn in response to the eager questions put.
The Honour of the Flag
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Ten minutes later the anchor was hanging at the hawsepipe, and under her power the _Maggie II_ swung slowly in the lagoon, pointed her sharp bow for the opening in the reef, and bounded away for the open sea.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
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After threading the rope through a rusting Karabiner attached to a wire hawser wrapped around a rock beneath the Bolster Stone, Hugh abseiled off, after clipping me onto the rope via a ‘figure of eight’ descendeur.
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We sent boats with ropes and hawsers to the rocks, wound a rope round a rock, made a hawser fast to the rope, and swung to it with a length of hawser.
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But the salvagee, by this method, was always left at the buoy, and was, of course, more liable to chafe and wear than a hawser passed through the ring, which could be wattled with canvas, and shifted at pleasure.
Records of a Family of Engineers
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The cable murmured from the hawsehole, then there was a splash as its bitter end fell into the sea.
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It was evident that if the frapping gave way the hawser would be sure to jump clear of the bit heads and fly back with great force against the gallery and the engine room skylight.
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I added anchors and hawsepipes to the front of the ship.
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Nick is determined to reinstall the last few gleaming hawsehole surrounds.
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When the cleat tried to go through the hawsepipe, it jammed and ripped a section of the hull completely off the boat.
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It is held up with steel hawsers against the storms.
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Well, he'll drown there the way she's shipping water through the hawse - pipes.
Chris Farrington, Able Seaman
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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
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The hawseholes through which the huge anchor chains had once clanged are overgrown with thick layers of red and white sponges.
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On some ships, particularly warships, the winch and hawse pipes might be below the deck.
