hawser
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈhɔːzər/
- Specialized
:
cabo
- The crew tied the hawser securely to the dock to keep the ship in place.
- a thick hawser
- a ship's hawser
- hawser line
Thought history was thrashing around like a steel hawser with the tension off, twanging backwards and forwards across reality in great destructive sweeps.
- Thought history was thrashing around like a steel hawser with the tension off, twanging backwards and forwards across reality in great destructive sweeps.
Examples
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Thicker hawsers followed, and it took no more than a handful of minutes to wrap them around the mooring bollards and lower a plank from the pier.
Fiction book (1999) -
You can see the mate now, waiting with the forward spring line in his hand before he tosses that hawser neatly over the piling just as the bow nudges alongside.
Fiction book (2000) -
On a merchant ship, the first officer and three men would deal with that hawser, right?
Fiction book (1995) -
The substitute hawser you'll ship will do this job in any weather.
Fiction book (2001) -
Clear the main hawser!
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The rotten hawser that Bulger provided snapped off Ship Head.
Fiction book (2001) -
If the Chesil Bank gets caught in it and that stinkin' hawser parts, what about the skeleton crew she'll have on board to handle the lines?
Fiction book (2001) -
Her crew! And since it was your tug that used that defective hawser, Alec, it's you who'd have had to pay.
Fiction book (2001) -
Later in the morning, with the substitute hawser on board, the Narcissus surged away into the rain and mist while Annie stood forlornly on the wharf and watched, for the first time in many years, her beloved old tug sail without her.
Fiction book (2001) -
Using a thick hawser, they towed the disabled boat back to shore.
Synonyms
4
5.0
A rope or chain that holds a boat in place
1
5.9
A strong rope that ties a boat to a dock so it does not move
1
5.1
A rope used to pull a vehicle or boat
A strong rope that people use to pull a car or boat
A strong rope that you use to pull a car or boat
Compounds
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word hawser comes from an old seafaring term for a very thick rope that sailors used to 'hold' or 'tug' a ship, so imagine a giant rope between a ship and the dock. That's why a hawser today means the strong rope or cable used for mooring or towing.