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- noun Plural form of
hawse-pipe .
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Examples
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Like an avalanche, she shot forward and down as the sea astern struck her with the force of a thousand battering rams, burying her bow to the catheads in the milky foam at the bottom that came on deck in all directions - forward, astern, to right and left, through the hawse-pipes and over the rail.
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Like an avalanche, she shot forward and down as the sea astern struck her with the force of a thousand battering rams, burying her bow to the catheads in the milky foam at the bottom that came on deck in all directions - forward, astern, to right and left, through the hawse-pipes and over the rail.
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Many hearts sink at the order, but in as few moments as possible the cables are smoking through the hawse-pipes.
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The cables have been unshackled and stowed in the lockers below, and the hawse-pipes are all plugged; the anchors are all inboard, and everything that could possibly act as a brake on her is removed.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various
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Like an avalanche, she shot forward and down as the sea astern struck her with the force of a thousand battering rams, burying her bow to the catheads in the milky foam at the bottom that came on deck in all directions - forward, astern, to right and left, through the hawse-pipes and over the rail.
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Steadily swinging on the jade-green surges, she buried her nose almost to the hawse-pipes, then lifted until her streaming forefoot gleamed out of a frilled ruffle of foam.
Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923
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Well, he'll drown there the way she's shipping water through the hawse-pipes.
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Like an avalanche, she shot forward and down as the sea astern struck her with the force of a thousand battering rams, burying her bow to the cat-heads in the milky foam at the bottom that came on deck in all directions -- forward, astern, to right and left, through the hawse-pipes and over the rail.
Stories of Ships and the Sea Little Blue Book # 1169 Jack London 1896
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Like an avalanche, she shot forward and down as the sea astern struck her with the force of a thousand battering rams, burying her bow to the catheads in the milky foam at the bottom that came on deck in all directions -- forward, astern, to right and left, through the hawse-pipes and over the rail.
Dutch Courage and Other Stories Jack London 1896
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He was alone when the music of the chains in the hawse-pipes sounded in his ears.
The Captain of the Kansas Louis Tracy 1895
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