Canvas bags filled with oakum, used in heavy seas to stop the hawse-holes and prevent the water coming in.
·noun A hawse hole. II. Hawse ·noun That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for th...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
This is a term of great meaning. Strictly, it is that part of a vessel's bow where holes are cut for...
The Sailor's Word-Book
tripe. Cumb. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
See sand-bags. ...
The sacks used on the India station for holding rice, biscuit, &c.; often as sand-bags in fortificat...
Leathern bags containing from 20 to 40 lbs. of powder; substituted for petards at the instance of Lo...
Small square cushions made of canvas and painted, for boats' ballast. Also, bags containing about a ...
When a vessel is riding with two anchors out, and the cables are crossed round each other outside th...
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. ...
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...
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...