hawser

• “The word hawser has nothing whatever to do with the verb to hoist; neither does the ` N.E.D. 'say that it has.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1

• “The hawser is a thick rope, or cable, to which the lifebuoy is suspended when in action.”

  Battles with the Sea

• “I was concerned that the standard garage door was not secure enough and wanted to give him extra locking facility for the cycle - so I screwed a padlock type hasp into the wall inside the garage - then provided a steel 'hawser' type rope (from a cycle shop) for him to lock the bike up to, which threaded through the large hasp.”

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• “I, too, by this time, was standing on the big hawser-bitts in a position to see a man in the water who seemed deliberately swimming away from the ship.”

  CHAPTER III

• “Instead, however, I gave her still more hawser, veered her, and dropped the second anchor.”

  SMALL-BOAT SAILING

• “By two in the morning our shrouds were thrumming in a piping breeze, and I got up and gave her more scope on her hawser.”

  SMALL-BOAT SAILING

• “We bent all our spare lines; we unrove sheets and halyards; we used our two-inch hawser; we fastened lines part way up the mast, half way up, and everywhere else.”

  SMALL-BOAT SAILING

• “Wriggling close to the hawser, he opened his jack-knife and went to work.”

  The Lost Poacher

• “While this was being done, the boat plied back and forth between the two vessels, passing a heavy hawser, which was made fast to the great towing-bitts on the schooner's forecastle-head.”

  The Lost Poacher

• “He saw the Mary Thomas swing abruptly into line as she took the pressure from the hawser, and her side-lights, red and green, rose and fell as she was towed through the sea.”

  The Lost Poacher

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