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Definition of Hawsepipes
1. hawsepipe [n] - See also: hawsepipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawsepipes
Literary usage of Hawsepipes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect (1889)
"STOCKLESS ANCHORS IN hawsepipes. "IT frequently happens with the introduction of
a new J_ departure from fid-established customs ..."
2. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Admiralty of England: And on by Vernon Lushington, Great Britain High Court of Admiralty (1864)
"... and blew the ship to sea, with loss of anchors and damage to hawsepipes, ...
obliged to slip both her anchors, with loss of hawsepipes and injury to her ..."
3. Rudder by Thomas Fleming Day (1912)
"So don't turn down the anchors sticking out of the hawsepipes just because you
think they don't look pretty. Of course, as soon as you clear for a long ..."
4. Wonderful inventions: from the mariner's compass to the electric telegraph cable by John Timbs (1882)
"Against one of the hawsepipes at the bows the cable now caught, while the ship
kept moving to the left, and thus chafed and strained the cable greatly ..."
5. A Manual of the Examination of Masters and Mates as Instituted by the by William C Seaton (1875)
"If the bowsprit has but little sleeve and the hawsepipes are well up, get the
ends of the chain out through the hawsepipes and secured to tin- bowsprit as ..."
6. The handbook of iron shipbuilding by Thomas Smith (1869)
"15 6 6 Wages on hold stanchions .. .... 48 11 Timber heads 130 .... 10 8 4 Wages
on timber heads .. .... 4 13 6 hawsepipes 0 16 0 . ..."
7. Leading American Inventors by George Iles (1912)
"Then, with a rising wind, the sea swept her deck, entered through the hawsepipes,
and choked her draft. These mishaps, and others less serious, ..."
8. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"... were hove up to the yawning hawsepipes by hempen cables. HE WENT ALOFT WITH
THE JACKS. But there was no magic in all these sights and sounds to lighten ..."
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