How To Use hawser 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.
- Thicker hawsers followed, and it took no more than a few minutes to wrap them around the mooring bollards.
- Supposing I were in all secretness to cut the hawser mooring one of those ships? Hunger
- 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. . .”
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The bow is impressive and very photogenic, with the exposed starboard anchor still housed and its hawser and mooring bollards easily distinguishable.
- The towing hawsers also had to be kept under constant surveillance. Times, Sunday Times
- Wriggling close to the hawser, he opened his jack-knife and went to work. The Lost Poacher
