Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An iron pipe fitted into a hawse-hole to prevent the wood from being abraded.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
hawsepipe .
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Examples
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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.
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Over their coffee, they heard the rumble of an anchor-chain through a hawse-pipe, tokening the arrival of a vessel.
A GOBOTO NIGHT 2010
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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 2010
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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."
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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 MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966
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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 Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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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 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926
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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 Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson 1917
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The Snark's anchor rumbled the chain through the hawse-pipe, and we lay without movement on a "lineless, level floor."
Chapter 5 1913
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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.
ruzuzu commented on the word hawse-pipe
"An iron pipe fitted into a hawse-hole to prevent the wood from being abraded."
- The Century Dictionary
August 4, 2010