Hawsehole

Quick meaning: Hawsehole is a noun meaning (nautical) The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed.

Meaning

(nautical) The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed.

More Meanings

1. (nautical) A hole in a ship through which a hawser is passed.

Example Sentences

Its overlapping steel plates and the empty hawseholes, from which the anchors will soon be suspended, are visible.

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.

Word Forms

• hawseholes
• hawse hole

Synonyms for hawsehole

Depending on context, synonyms include cathole, hawse, hawsepipe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hawsepipe, hawse, halse, hawse pipe, hause, cathole.

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