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Examples of hawsepipe
hawsepipe
On larger vessels, the chain runs through a hawsepipe.
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The term derives from a ship's hawsepipe, the opening on the ship's bow through which the anchor chain passes.
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Once the anchor is hauled up to the hawsepipe, the ring end is hoisted up to the end of a timber projecting from the bow known as the cathead.
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- Hawse: the hole that an anchor rope passes through
- Hawsehole is a nautical term for a small hole in the hull of a ship through which hawsers may be passed. Also known as a cat hole. In the British Navy, an officer who had served as a seaman before being promoted was said to have "come in through the hawsehole."
- (hawsepipes) Pipes to guide lines through the hawse hole. On large vessels anchors are stored with their shanks in the hawsepipes.
- A hole through which ropes, or more typically, the anchor chains may pass, on their way from the deck to the side of the hull.
