Definitions for hawses

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hawses hawse

Spelling: [hawz, haws]

IPA: /hɔz, hɔs/

Hawses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in hawses (aehssw).

Definitions for hawses

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.

Idioms

1. to hawse, with both bow anchors out:

verb (used without object)

1. (of a vessel) to pitch heavily at anchor.

Origin of hawses

before 1000; Middle English hals, Old English heals bow of a ship, literally, neck; cognate with Old Norse hals in same senses, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German hals neck, throat, Lati

Examples for hawses

The “hawse” of a ship is that part of the bows where the “hawse-holes” are made.

That cursed Spanish ship ahead is heaving-to athwart our hawse.

I kinder hinted as how you might ride a kaow bettern a hawse.

The hawse hole for the chain cable is fitted as has not been seen before.

Said well never get the hawsers to run out with them bugs in the hawse pipes.

They 'clear our hawse' from turns and twists in the chain of our landward connections.

You ride my hawse, Mr. Cameron, and Ill sit in yere and drive.

If Priest's hawse was perched on the top of a mountain, it would resemble it.

First thing you know that hawse will pitch into the herd and we'll have a stampede on our hands.

I sure never run no hawse race with the sheriff out of Texas!