hawsehole
Collocations
1HAWSEHOLE + NOUN
darker
Definitions
noun
The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed.
The bolsters can be seen outboard of the hawseholes, and the way they are cut away to permit the passage of the anchor-cables.
Then he saw. a few feet aft of the hawsehole, a darker spot on the hull—someone had left a porthole open below the forecastle. in the hold that was the crews' quarters.
A hole in a ship through which a hawser is passed.
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noun — the hole that an anchor rope passes through
- hawse
- hawsepipe
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3The bolsters can be seen outboard of the hawseholes, and the way they are cut away to permit the passage of the anchor-cables.
WiktionaryThen he saw. a few feet aft of the hawsehole, a darker spot on the hull—someone had left a porthole open below the forecastle. in the hold that was the crews' quarters.
WiktionaryIts overlapping steel plates and the empty hawseholes, from which the anchors will soon be suspended, are visible.
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