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Definition of Hawser bend
1. Noun. A knot uniting the ends of two lines.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawser Bend
Literary usage of Hawser bend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook for Rangers & Woodsmen by Jay Laird Burgess Taylor (1916)
"This is also illustrated in the same figure with the hawser bend. ... A toggle
pin or stick is fastened into the end of one hawser bend. Clove and overhand. ..."
2. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"Reeve and overhaul down the hawser, bend the forward end to the slings of the
yard, and stop it out to the port yard-arm (supposing the yard on the ..."
3. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"... and readiest, when it is designed to take them asunder again. There are several
bends, as Carrick-bend, hawser-bend, s/ieet-bend, bowline-bend, ..."
4. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1860)
"A regular hawser bend (Jig. 98, plate 31), is made as by sketch, but as will be
perceived, takes a little more time. This is used when it is requisite to ..."
5. Yachts and Yachting: Being a Treatise on Building, Sparring, Canvassing by William Cooper (1873)
"A regular hawser bend (Fig. 98, Plate 81), is made as by sketch, but as will be
perceived, takes a little more time. This is used when it is requisite to ..."
6. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"hawser bend, for joining two ropes, easily undone ; 17. Cata paw, the turn in
the bight. of a rope, for hooking a tackle to it ; 18. ..."
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