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The alternate name for the number one berthing hawser at the bow of the ship. Unique in how it is sometimes used as a legendary method for covertly coming and going from the ship. eg. "Bloggins is missing. I wonder if he climbed down the head rope."
Circular or conical metal plates attached to a ship's berthing hawsers (mooring lines) to prevent rats getting aboard. In some cases they also prevent sailors from sneaking ashore by climbing down the hawsers.
A method of placing multiple berthing hawsers on a bollard so that either vessel may remove theirs first.
A berthing hawser running from the ship to the jetty in either the forward, or the aft direction. Its role is to prevent movement of the vessel fore and aft.
heavy line used in mooring a ship; often 4 or 6 inches in diameter or more. These lines are *never* referred to as "rope."
Clutching two parallel lines together in your hands and pressing them together, using the friction between the lines to hold them fast. When the ship's berthing hawsers are doubled-up, the second hawser is "married" to the first while a seaman takes turns on the bollard.
To wind a line or hawser around a bollard, or set of bits, in order to gain advantage via friction.
The large fairlead at the bow for passing out hawsers or cable.
Large rope used for mooring or towing a vessel. Derived from the olde English word "halter" which means "rope for the neck".
Throw something out, or get rid of something. eg. "We had to bin that idea," or "That old hawser was binned."
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n.
A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
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That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
n.
A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
n. & a.
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
n.
See Hawser.
a.
Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
n.
A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable.
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Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf. Cable-laid, and see Illust. of Cordage.
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A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
n.
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
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To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
n.
One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
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To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
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A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
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A mooring hawser.
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