HAWSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hawse mean? 

• HAWSE (noun)
  The noun HAWSE has 1 sense:

1. the hole that an anchor rope passes through

  Familiarity information: HAWSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAWSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hole that an anchor rope passes through

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hawse; hawsehole; hawsepipe

Hypernyms ("hawse" is a kind of...):

hole (an opening deliberately made in or through something)

 Context examples 

That it was a sign, sir, that it was a bad hour to cross your hawse.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Have I lived this many years, and a son of a rum puncheon cock his hat athwart my hawse at the latter end of it?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)