hawse

hawse has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. A hawse hole.
• n.. The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
• n.. 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.
• n.. That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
• n.. the hole that an anchor rope passes through