Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
hawser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
hawser .
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- noun Alternative form of
hawser .
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Examples
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But a kedge and halser, stretched thwartwise to a neighboring crag, and jammed fast in a crevice, served in moderate weather to keep us tolerably right.
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On landing on the exposed shelf to which we had fastened our halser, I found the origin of the sand interestingly exhibited.
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