(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.
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Hawser
Definition:
(n.) A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
Example Sentences:
(1) A crane tried to pull them over but the crane and its steel hawser buckled, not the Towers.