hawse / hɔz, hɔs /

📖毕业后词汇鹰嘴兽鹰眼鹰派鹰嘴豆

hawse2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the part of a bow where the hawseholes are located.
  2. a hawsehole or hawsepipe.
  3. the distance or space between the bow of an anchored vessel and the point on the surface of the water above the anchor.
  4. 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

hawsed, haws·ing.

  1. to pitch heavily at anchor.

更多hawse例句

  1. Little more than an hour before midnight another craft was observed driving down on the hawse of the Gull.
  2. A breeze at nightfall fanned her along, and when her killick went down, the rusty chain groaned querulously from her hawse-hole.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. As the anchor came up to the hawse-hole, the jib filled, and the vessel began to move.