(v. t.) To embrace about the neck; to salute; to greet.
(v. t.) To adjure; to beseech; to entreat.
(v. t.) To haul; to hoist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jim McDermott Woodford Halse, Northamptonshire • The last Labour government broadly asked the right questions about our constitution.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A typical view of a Northamptonshire field through which HS2 will pass, near Halse Copse.
Hawse
Definition:
(n.) A hawse hole.
(n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
(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.
(n.) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.