hawse-timbers

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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

    ·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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  • timbers

    The incurvated ribs of a ship which branch outwards from the keel in a vertical direction, so as to ...

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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-blocks

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

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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-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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  • Top-timbers

    ·noun The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. ...

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  • after-timbers

    All those timbers abaft the midship section or bearing part of a vessel. ...

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  • bollard-timbers

    Two pieces of oak, usually called knight-heads (which see). ...

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  • bolting timbers

    Those on each side of the stem, continued up for the security of the bowsprit. (See knight-heads.) ...

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  • bow-timbers

    Those which form the bow of the ship. ...

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  • cant-timbers

    They derive their name from being canted or raised obliquely from the keel. The upper ends of those ...

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  • compass-timbers

    Such as are curved, crooked, or arched, for ship-building. ...

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  • counter-timbers

    Short right-aft timbers for the purpose of strengthening the counter, and forming the stern. ...

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  • cross-timbers

    See cross-piece. ...

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  • filling-timbers

    Blocks of wood introduced in all well-built vessels between the frames, where the bilge-water may wa...

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  • floor-timbers

    See floors ...

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  • frame-timbers

    These consist of the floor-timbers, futtocks, and top-timbers; they are placed upon the keel at righ...

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  • futtock-timbers

    See futtocks. ...

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  • ground-timbers

    Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the kelson. ...

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  • half-timbers

    The short timbers or futtocks in the cant-bodies, answering to the lower futtocks in the square-body...

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  • knuckle-timbers

    The top-timbers in the fore-body, the heads of which stand perpendicular, and form an angle with the...

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  • long timbers

    , or long top-timbers. Synonymous with double futtocks. Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from ...

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  • quarter-timbers

    The framing timbers in a vessel's quarter. ...

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  • square timbers

    Those timbers which stand square with, or perpendicular to, the keel. ...

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  • top-timbers

    The first general tier which reach the top are called long top-timbers, and those below short top-ti...

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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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  • angles of timbers

    See bevelling. ...

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  • bow-log timbers

    A provincial name for hawse-wood. ...

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  • long stern-timbers

    See stern-timbers. ...

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  • long top-timbers

    See long timbers ...

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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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  • warping and framing the timbers

    Putting in the beam-knees, coamings, &c., and dividing the spaces between the beams for fitting the ...

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