hawse

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These memories dealt with a remote time, when a hawse was a hawse, and you couldn't have it put all over you by a lot of slick young smarties that could do a few things with a monkey wrench.

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  1. noun The part of a ship where the hawseholes are located.
  2. noun A hawsehole.
  3. noun The space between the bows and anchors of an anchored ship.
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  • I know not which the truest: that he come with so strong a gale of wind, that his grapplings would not hold; that he did come by their lee; whereas if he had come athwart their hawse, they would have held; that they did not stop a tide, and come up with a windward tide, and then they would not have come so fast. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1667
  • Sharpe heard the thumping rumble as the anchor cables snaked and whipped out of the hawse-holes. —  Sharpe's Siege
  • I swung over the side on a rope, got my feet in the hawse-pipe, reached down and grabbed the chain. —  When Eight Bells Toll
  • Of its former activities remained only three or four sedate horses to be driven by conservatives; and Starling Tucker, who lived, but lived in the past, dazed and unbelieving--becoming vivacious only in speech, beginning, "I remember when These memories dealt with a remote time, when a hawse was a hawse, and you couldn't have it put all over you by a lot of slick young smarties that could do a few things with a monkey wrench. —  The Wrong Twin
  • These memories dealt with a remote time, when a hawse was a hawse, and you couldn't have it put all over you by a lot of slick young smarties that could do a few things with a monkey wrench. —  The Wrong Twin
 

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  1. Middle English hals, forward curve of a strake, probably from Old Norse hāls, neck, ship's bow; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Earlier spelling halse: see halse.
  2. Early modern English, also written halse; from Old French haulser, hausser, raise, heave up, lift up, advance, earlier Old French haucer, haucier, hauchier, French hausser, raise, lift, = Provencal ausar, alsar = Spanish alzar, raise, lift, etc. (alzar velas, set the sails), = Italian alzare, raise, lift, etc. (alzare le vele, set the sails), from Latin as if *altiare, from altus, high: see haut, alt, altitude, etc.; and cf. hausse. In the nautical sense (in quot. from Grafton), referred by some to Icelandic hālsa (segl), ‘clue up’ (a sail) (see halse), but this is a different thing from ‘hoisting’ sail, for which the Icelandic terms are vinda, draga, setja upp (segl). etc. Not connected with hoise or hoist, q. v.
  3. Middle English; cf. hawse, v.
 

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