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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(nautical) 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.
Its overlapping steel plates and the empty hawseholes, from which the anchors will soon be suspended, are visible.
Use hawsehole when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hawsehole means (nautical) The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed..
Common synonyms include cathole, hawse, hawsepipe.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The bolsters can be seen outboard of the hawseholes, and the way they are cut away to permit the passage of the anchor-cables.
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