Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A hawse hole.
2. The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
3. 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.
4. That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
A cylindrical hole in the bow of a ship through which a cable passes.
One of the foremost timbers of a ship.
A small cable; or a large rope, in size between a cable and a tow-line.
A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
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