When a vessel is riding with two anchors out, and the cables are crossed round each other outside the stem by the swinging of the ship when moored in a tide-way. (See elbow in the hawse.)
·superl Ugly; homely; poor. II. Foul ·noun ·see Foul ball, under Foul, ·adj. III. Foul ·noun A <<B...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A hawse hole. II. Hawse ·noun That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for th...
To foul a plate with a man, to take a dinner with him. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
ugly. Derb. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Generally used in opposition to clear, and implies entangled, embarrassed, or contrary to: as "a shi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
This is a term of great meaning. Strictly, it is that part of a vessel's bow where holes are cut for...
·adj Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. ...
·adj Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language. ...
Abusive. ...
May be generated by circumstances beyond control: decomposing fungi, timber injected with coal tar, ...
An anchor is said to be foul, or fouled, either when it hooks some impediment under water, or when t...
When a ship anchors in the hawse of another she gives the latter a foul berth; or she may anchor on ...
See bill of health. ...
A ship to which sea-weed, shells, or other encumbrances adhere. Also, the bottom of the sea if rocky...
One beset with reefs and breakers, offering dangerous impediments to navigation. ...
Applied to salmon in the spawning state, or such as have not for the current year made their way to ...
Synonymous with foul bottom. ...
A rope entangled or unfit for immediate use. ...
That which reduces a ship to snug-sail. ...
That which prevents a ship from laying her course. ...
Canvas bags filled with oakum, used in heavy seas to stop the hawse-holes and prevent the water comi...
Bucklers, or pieces of wood made to fit over the hawse-holes when at sea, to back the hawse-plugs. ...
Planks above and below the hawse-holes. Also, pieces of canvas stuffed with oakum and roped round, f...
, or naval hood. Pieces of plank bolted outside round each of the hawse-holes, to support the proj...
Plugs of wood to fit the hawse-holes, and hatches to bolt over, to keep the sea from spurting in. ...
To ride hawse-fallen, is when the water breaks into the hawse in a rough sea, driving all before it....
Riding hawse-full; pitching bows under. ...
Cylindrical holes cut through the bows of a ship on each side of the stem, through which the cables ...
A compass breast timber which crosses the hawse-timber above the ends of the upper-deck planking, an...
The timbers which compose the bow of a vessel, and their sides look fore and aft; it is a name given...
A cast-iron pipe in the hawse-holes to prevent the cable from cutting the wood. ...
Blocks of wood made to fit into the hawse-pipes, and put in from the outside to stop the hawses, and...
The upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of the stem, in which the hawse-holes are cut. ...
A general name for the hawse-timbers. ...
When a vessel rides by two anchors, without any cross in her cables. ...
A vessel, by accident or bad steerage, falling in contact with another under sail. (See athwart // h...
A name given to the Gulf Stream from such a volume of warm water occasioning great perturbations in ...
Denotes danger for boats leaving the shore; watermen's fares increase with these signals. ...
To relieve that part of the cable which has for some time been exposed to friction in one of the haw...
Is when a ship moored with two anchors from the bows has swung the wrong way once, whereby the two c...
Two crosses in a hawse. When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby...
To reprimand severely. (See fall aboard of, to.) ...
Two crosses in a cable. ...
A term implying the situation of the two cables of a ship, which, when moored, has swung the wrong w...