How To Use Hawser 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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Thicker hawsers followed, and it took no more than a few minutes to wrap them around the mooring bollards.
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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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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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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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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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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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Wriggling close to the hawser, he opened his jack-knife and went to work.
The Lost Poacher
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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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The anchor cable plunged into the water beside him, and he laid a hand on the thick hawser.
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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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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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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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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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It is held up with steel hawsers against the storms.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.
Archive 2007-11-01
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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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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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_ -- 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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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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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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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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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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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, 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
