hawse-pipe

• “Even as he spoke, they heard the rumble of chain through hawse-pipe, and from the veranda saw a big black-painted schooner, swinging to her just-caught anchor.”

  Chapter 14

• “Over their coffee, they heard the rumble of an anchor-chain through a hawse-pipe, tokening the arrival of a vessel.”

  A GOBOTO NIGHT

• “As they drink their coffee an anchor-chain is heard rumbling through a hawse-pipe and Gee says, "It's David Grief," and Deacon calls the deduction "unadulterated poppycock.”

  “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”

• “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

• “But now my first heave on the winch-lever started it slipping, and in an instant it was whizzing out of the hawse-pipe and overboard.”

  The Riddle of the Sands

• “The tug's cable had scarcely ceased to rattle through the hawse-pipe when the opening shots, delivered through a megaphone, rang out across the water.”

  The Long Trick

• “Already the steam capstan was clanking dolorously as fathom after fathom of chain crept with seeming reluctance through the hawse-pipe.”

  The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War

• “The Snark's anchor rumbled the chain through the hawse-pipe, and we lay without movement on a "lineless, level floor.”

  Chapter 5

• “As the chain roared and surged through the hawse-pipe he noticed a number of native women, lusciously large as only those of Polynesia are, in flowing ahu's, flower-crowned, stream out on the deck of the schooner on the beach.”

  The Devils of Fuatino

• “The Snark's anchor rumbled the chain through the hawse-pipe, and we lay without movement on”

  Adventures in Dream Harbor

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