Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An opening in the bow of a ship through which a cable or hawser is passed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cylindrical hole in the bow of a ship through which a cable is passed.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a hole in the bow of a ship, through which the anchor rope or cable passes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the hole that an anchor rope passes through
Examples
“At last she stopped; at last the cable rattled through the hawsehole; and then, careless of the chance of lurking Spaniard or”
“Her brother snapped his safety harness to the lifeline, stepped out of the hawsehole and ran down the slope of the rescue line toward Resolute .”
“Lay them on the hawsehole, forward, by the sea rats.”
“But like a circus ferret on the high wire, in the glare of searchlights and rocket flares, her brother darted ahead, stopped, darted ahead again, until he reached the hawsehole and the sea rats hauled him inside.”
“If the water reaches B deck, we may lose the ship, and I want you all to get forward to the chain locker, up the anchor chain to the hawsehole, and hold on tight.”
““Then we jump from the hawsehole and we swim for it.””
“Vincent met his sister at the hawsehole, astonished that she would leave the bridge in the midst of . . .”
“The pumping party was working its way down the row of bigger ships, but none of the Danes noticed the three men drop through the Christian VII's hawsehole onto the quay.”
“Thirty other seamen came to the lower deck and shipped the capstan bars, then began to trudge around and around, inching up the great anchor cable that came through the hawsehole, along the lower deck and down into the ship's belly.”
“From this it fell out we were the only passengers; the Captain, McMurtrie, was a silent, absorbed man, with the Glascow or Gaelic accent; the mates ignorant rough seafarers, come in through the hawsehole; and the Master and I were cast upon each others company.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hawsehole’.
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Balderdash
If you've ever played the game "Balderdash," you may have heard of the 'Weird Words' category. This category lists some pretty strange words... these are a few examples of word you may come across ...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Bits and pieces
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Holes
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I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
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Tweets
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chained_bear "'Mr Pullings,' he asked in the silence, 'Is the anchor a-cockbill?'
"'Yes, sir: with a spring from right aft.'
"'Then let it be lowered inch by inch to the hawsehole: then we can let it go without a splash...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 190 Feb 29, 2008