Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawsing
Literary usage of Hawsing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Building of a Wooden Ship by Charles Gerard Davis, Thomas William Clarke, Frank Steel Drown (1918)
"... or cotton, spun into thin strings, is tucked in with a calking iron and then
driven up hard with a blunt, wide-bladed tool, called a hawsing iron, ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"They maul Frenchmen and Spaniards, they go out in brigs and take frigates, they
relieve women in distress, and are yard-arm and yard-arming, athwart-hawsing ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1869)
"They maul Frenchmen and Spaniards, they go out in brigs and take frigates, they
relieve women in distress, and are yard-arm and yard-arming, athwart-hawsing ..."
4. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"At this place, he had met with a " hawsing current." Here, the winds were squally
with rain; and there, it was he had-teen beset with fogs; here, ..."
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