hawsers

At Waltham Abbey they have a curtain made of ship's hawsers, which is at the same time elastic and resistant. "

Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

The oyster pirates lay snugly together at short hawsers, the weather being fine, and they protested loudly at our ignorance in putting out such an unwarranted length of anchor-chain.

A Raid on the Oyster Pirates 2010

He stumbled over taut hawsers and piles of dunnage, tripped on crazy guy-ropes and insanely planted pegs, and fell again and again upon frozen dumps and mounds of hoarded driftwood.

WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER 2010

At three the whistle blasted, the thick hawsers were loosed from the dock, the big diesels churned and backed from the pier, and we headed out into a windy, slate-gray Sea of Cortez.

Kook Peter Heller 2010

I thought of cutting the rope bridge, but the hawsers were far too thick and I didn't try.

Enjoyment 2010

Toward the end of the bridge, the position of the main hawsers forced the bridge to a more normal level, despite my body weight, and I gratefully pulled myself up onto the treads.

Enjoyment 2010

I wrestled with J.B. once myself, at his invitation, thinking I'd best go easy on the old fellow, but it was like being wrapped in wire hawsers with a scrubbing brush buried in your neck, and he grassed me before I knew it.

THE NUMBERS 2010

If I were doing a political cartoon of the Thompson campaign I would picture a ship sitting at the dock about half sunk with the rat-protection cones on the hawsers tied to the dock turned backwards to keep the rats ON the ship.

The Thompson Campaign: One Shakeup After Another 2009

For a little more edge and youth, one goes to the Arsenale, where the ropes and hawsers for the Venetian fleets were once produced.

Too Haute for Commerce: The Venice Biennale 2009

For a little more edge and youth, one goes to the Arsenale, where the ropes and hawsers for the Venetian fleets were once produced.

Too Haute for Commerce: The Venice Biennale 2009