hawse

English

Etymology

Alteration of Middle English halse, from Old Norse hals (“neck”) (compare Icelandic háls (“neck”)).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /hɔːz/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Homophone: whores
  • (US) IPA(key): /hɔz/, /hɔs/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːz, -ɔz, -ɔs

Noun

hawse (plural hawses)

  1. (nautical) The part of the bow containing the hawseholes.
  2. (nautical) A hawsehole or hawsepipe.
  3. (nautical) The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s).

Derived terms
  • hause (“col, lower ridge between peaks”)

Translations

Adjective

hawse (not comparable)

  1. (nautical) In a position relative to the course and position of a vessel, somewhat forward of the stem.

Adverb

hawse (not comparable)

  1. (nautical, of a vessel) Lying to two anchors, streamed from either bow.

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • athwart hawse
  • bold hawse
  • clearing hawse
  • in the hawse
  • foul the hawse
  • "freshen hawse"
  • hawse-bags
  • hawse-blocks
  • hawse-bolster
  • hawse-fallen
  • hawse-full
  • hawsehole, hawse-hole
  • hawse-hook
  • hawse-pieces
  • hawsepipe, hawse-pipe
  • hawse-plug
  • hawse-timber
  • hawse-wood

Verb

hawse (third-person singular simple present hawses, present participle hawsing, simple past and past participle hawsed)

  1. (intransitive, nautical, of a vessel) To lie uneasily to an anchor, typically due to a weather tide.

References
  1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hawse

Anagrams

Scots

Noun

hawse (plural hawses)

  1. halse; neck; throat
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