hawse

hawse is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hawse hole. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A hawse hole.
2. noun. The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
3. noun. The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse.
4. noun. That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
5. noun. the hole that an anchor rope passes through

   Synonyms: hawsehole, hawsepipe

Synonyms

hawsehole, hawsepipe

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hawse:

shewa, whase

Common word forms

hawsed, hawser, hawses, hawsing

Words from these letters

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