Crossword-Solution: HAWSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hawse | n. | A hawse hole. |
| Hawse | n. | The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow. |
| Hawse | n. | 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. |
| Hawse | n. | That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HAWSE | anagram | HAWES, HESAW, HEWAS, SHEWA, WASHE |
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Sentences with HAWSE (5)
Wilbur and the Chinamen obeyed, bearing up and down upon the bars till the slack of the anchor-chain came home and stretched taut and dripping from the hawse-holes.
For life that crammed me full, Gangs of the prying gull That shriek and scrabble on the riven hatches! For roar that dumbed the gale, My hawse-pipes guttering wail, Sobbing my heart out through the uncounted watches! Blind in the hot blue ring Through all my points I swing -- Swing and return to shift the sun anew.
There was an exaltation in his nature which had led him to embrace with enthusiasm the principles of the French Revolution, and had ended by bringing him under the hawse of my Lord Hermiston in that furious onslaught of his upon the Liberals, which sent Muir and Palmer into exile and dashed the party into chaff.
All were moored, as is the custom in Apia, with two anchors practically east and west, clear hawse to the north, and a kedge astern.
Captain Thompson, finding that nothing could be done that night to get off the CULLODEN, advanced with the intention of anchoring athwart-hawse of the ORIENT.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 78 times in crossword archives (1942–2016).