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How to pronounce hawse in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hawsehole, hawsepipe
Type of hole

Examples of hawse

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Hawse found that tamoxifen had little effect on the growth of the cancer cells.
From the sciencedaily.com
Typically rests just outside the hawse pipe on the outer side of the hull, at the bow of a vessel.
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A ship's hawse pipe is the pipe passing through the bow section of a ship that the anchor chain passes through.
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Hawsepiper refers to climbing up the hawse pipe, a nautical metaphor for climbing up the ship's rank structure.
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Have I lived this many years, and a son of a rum puncheon cock his hat athwart my hawse at the latter end of it?
From the washingtonpost.com
Foreign exchange earnings allowed the purchase of metal pieces for use on ships, such as hawse-pipes and deck pumps.
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It cannot be stored in a hawse pipe.
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They cannot be used with hawse pipes.
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Hawse said current federal and Southern California Edison rebates will halve what would have been a $2.4 million price to install 2,800 solar panels on the dealership and parking-structure roofs.
From the dailynews.com
More examples
  • The hole that an anchor rope passes through
  • The part of the bow containing the hawseholes; A hawsehole or hawsepipe; The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s); A position relative to the course and position of a vessel, somewhat forward of the stem; Said of a vessel ...
  • The general region around the ship's head where the hawse-holes, through which the cables pass, are to be found: it also applies to the air and sea somewhat ahead, where the cables would be if the ship were anchored.
  • Is a fixed guide used to help retrieve wire rope in winches.
  • Distance between ship's bow and its anchor
  • A rope used in mooring or in towing vessels.