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Definition of Hawsehole
1. Noun. The hole that an anchor rope passes through.
Definition of Hawsehole
1. Noun. (nautical) The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hawsehole
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawsehole
Literary usage of Hawsehole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bering's Voyages: An Account of the Efforts of the Russians to Determine the by Frank Alfred Golder, Leonhard Stejneger (1922)
"... submerged rocks farther to the west we cut the cable (35 fathoms of which we
had already heaved in) of the spare small bower anchor at the hawsehole, ..."
2. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1848)
"... into the water—the chain rattled swiftly through the hawsehole—we swung round
with the tide, broadside to the fort, and "The voyage of the ship Gentile, ..."
3. A Mainsail Haul by John Masefield (1913)
"... roll and go, out it went through the hawsehole, in a shower of bright sparks,
carrying the devil with it. There is no devil now. The devil's dead. ..."
4. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1905)
"... well-aimed, entered the hawsehole of the Confiance and crashed its way through
men and timbers till it tore the wheel from its fastenings. ..."
5. A Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience by Harry Alverson Franck (1911)
"The anchor might be dropped anywhere in the canal, and I should be dragged
piecemeal through the hawsehole. Still pondering, I climbed to the spot where I ..."
6. The Metropolitan (1836)
"... messenger returning in the meantime past the other side of the vessel, again
met, and was fastened to a fresh portion of the cable at the hawsehole. ..."
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