hawse-holes

Related Words

• Hawse

  ·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

• hawse

  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

• dream-holes

  the openings left in the walls of steeples, towers, barns, &c. for the admission of light. Glouc. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• blow-holes

  The nostrils of the cetaceans, situated on the highest part of the head. In the whalebone whales the...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bobstay-holes

  Those cut through the fore-part of the knee of the head, between the cheeks, for the admission of th...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cat-holes

  Places or spaces made in the quarter, for carrying out fasts or springs for steadying or heaving ast...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• eyelet-holes

  , are necessary in order to bend a sail to its yard or boom, or to reef it; they consist of round ho...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• futtock-holes

  Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• head-holes

  The eyelet-holes where the rope-bands of a sail are fitted; they are worked button-hole fashion, ove...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• holes, eyelet

  or œillet. The holes in sails for points and rope-bands which are fenced round by stitching the ed...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• lewis-holes

  Two holes in the surface of a mortar, superseding ears. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• loop-holes

  Small openings made in the walls of a castle, or a fortification, for musketry to fire through. Also...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• marline-holes

  Holes made for marling, or lacing the foot-rope and clues in courses and top-sails. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mast-holes

  The apertures in the deck-partners for stepping the masts. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• point-holes

  The eyelet-holes for the points. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• port-holes

  See ports ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sludge-holes

  Adaptations at the ends of the water-passages between the flues of a steamer's boilers, by which the...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• foul hawse

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-bags

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-blocks

  Bucklers, or pieces of wood made to fit over the hawse-holes when at sea, to back the hawse-plugs. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-bolsters

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-box

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-bucklers

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-fallen

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-full

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-hook

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-pieces

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-pipe

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-plugs

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-timbers

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hawse-wood

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• open hawse

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• freshen hawse, to

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• elbow in the hawse

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

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• turn in the hawse

  Two crosses in a cable. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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...

  The Sailor's Word-Book