Hawse is a 5 letter word which starts with the letter H and ends with the letter E for which we found 4 definitions.
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(n.) A hawse hole. |
(n.) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors one on the starboard the other on the port bow. |
(n.) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as the ship has a clear or open hawse or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse or athwart hawse. |
(n.) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables. |