hawse-blocks

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• Hawse

  ·noun A hawse hole. II. Hawse ·noun That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for th...

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• hawse

  This is a term of great meaning. Strictly, it is that part of a vessel's bow where holes are cut for...

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• blocks

  The several transverse pieces or logs of timber, piled in plane, on which a ship is built, or to pla...

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• foul hawse

  When a vessel is riding with two anchors out, and the cables are crossed round each other outside th...

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• hawse-bags

  Canvas bags filled with oakum, used in heavy seas to stop the hawse-holes and prevent the water comi...

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• hawse-bolsters

  Planks above and below the hawse-holes. Also, pieces of canvas stuffed with oakum and roped round, f...

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• hawse-box

  , or naval hood. Pieces of plank bolted outside round each of the hawse-holes, to support the proj...

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• hawse-bucklers

  Plugs of wood to fit the hawse-holes, and hatches to bolt over, to keep the sea from spurting in. ...

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• hawse-fallen

  To ride hawse-fallen, is when the water breaks into the hawse in a rough sea, driving all before it....

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• hawse-full

  Riding hawse-full; pitching bows under. ...

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• hawse-holes

  Cylindrical holes cut through the bows of a ship on each side of the stem, through which the cables ...

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• hawse-hook

  A compass breast timber which crosses the hawse-timber above the ends of the upper-deck planking, an...

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• hawse-pieces

  The timbers which compose the bow of a vessel, and their sides look fore and aft; it is a name given...

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• hawse-pipe

  A cast-iron pipe in the hawse-holes to prevent the cable from cutting the wood. ...

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• hawse-plugs

  Blocks of wood made to fit into the hawse-pipes, and put in from the outside to stop the hawses, and...

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• hawse-timbers

  The upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of the stem, in which the hawse-holes are cut. ...

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• hawse-wood

  A general name for the hawse-timbers. ...

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• open hawse

  When a vessel rides by two anchors, without any cross in her cables. ...

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• back-blocks

  n. 1) The far interior ofAustralia, and away from settled country. Land in Australia isdivided on t...

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• bee-blocks

  Pieces of hard wood bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through...

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• bilge-blocks

  See sliding bilge-blocks. ...

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• blocks, fixed

  See fixed blocks. ...

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• bullock-blocks

  Blocks secured under the top-mast trestle-trees, which receive the top-sail ties through them, in or...

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• cant-blocks

  The large purchase-blocks used by whalers to cant the whales round under the process of flensing. ...

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• cheek-blocks

  Usually fitted to the fore-topmast head, for the purpose of leading the jib-stay, halliards, &c. ...

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• clump-blocks

  Those that are made thicker or stronger than ordinary blocks. (See block, tack-and-sheet.) ...

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• fixed blocks

  Solid pieces of oak let through the sides of the ship, and fitted with sheaves, to lead the tacks, s...

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• hanging-blocks

  These are sometimes fitted with a long and short leg, and lash over the eyes of the top-mast rigging...

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• jeer-blocks

  Are twofold or threefold blocks, through which the jeer-falls are rove, and applied to hoist, suspen...

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• jewel-blocks

  Are attached to eye-bolts on those yards where studding-sails are hoisted, and carry these sails to ...

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• keel-blocks

  Short log ends of timbers on which the keel of a vessel rests while building or repairing, affording...

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• leading-blocks

  The several blocks used for guiding the direction of any purchase, as hook, snatch, or tail blocks. ...

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• pedestal-blocks

  Synonymous with plumber-blocks (which see). ...

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• plumber-blocks

  These, in a marine steam-engine, are Y's, wherein are fixed the bushes, in which the shafts or pinio...

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• purchase-blocks

  All blocks virtually deserve this name, but it is distinctively given to those used in moving heavy ...

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• quarter-blocks

  Blocks fitted under the quarters of a yard, on each side the slings, for the topsail-sheets, topsail...

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• running-blocks

  Those which are made fast to the running rigging or tackles. ...

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• span-blocks

  Blocks seized into each bight of a strap, long enough to go across a cap, and allow the blocks to ha...

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• speck-blocks

  See flense, to. ...

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• transporting-blocks

  Two snatch-blocks, fitted one on each side above the taffrail, to admit a hawser, when transporting ...

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• two-blocks

  The same as chock-a-block (which see). ...

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• freshen hawse, to

  To relieve that part of the cable which has for some time been exposed to friction in one of the haw...

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• iron-bound blocks

  Those which are fitted with iron strops. ...

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• sliding bilge-blocks

  Those logs made to slide under the bilge of a ship in order to support her. ...

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• cross in the hawse

  Is when a ship moored with two anchors from the bows has swung the wrong way once, whereby the two c...

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• elbow in the hawse

  Two crosses in a hawse. When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby...

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• turn in the hawse

  Two crosses in a cable. ...

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• round-turn in the hawse

  A term implying the situation of the two cables of a ship, which, when moored, has swung the wrong w...

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