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hawse

/hawz, haws/US // hɔz, hɔs //UK // (hɔːz) nautical //

鹰嘴兽,鹰眼,鹰派,鹰嘴豆

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the part of a bow where the hawseholes are located.
    • : a hawsehole or hawsepipe.
    • : the distance or space between the bow of an anchored vessel and the point on the surface of the water above the anchor.
    • : the relative position or arrangement of the port and starboard anchor cables when both are used to moor a vessel.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    hawsed, haws·ing.

    • : to pitch heavily at anchor.

Examples

  • Little more than an hour before midnight another craft was observed driving down on the hawse of the Gull.

  • A breeze at nightfall fanned her along, and when her killick went down, the rusty chain groaned querulously from her hawse-hole.

  • Dat's de fines' hawse dat dis chile ebber seen, an' I'se gwan ter watch ober heem lek he wus de apple ob mah eye.

  • He had given the order to slip the cable, and he could hear the rattle of the chain as it passed out through the hawse-hole.

  • As the anchor came up to the hawse-hole, the jib filled, and the vessel began to move.