The upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of the stem, in which the hawse-holes are cut.
·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
The incurvated ribs of a ship which branch outwards from the keel in a vertical direction, so as to ...
When a vessel is riding with two anchors out, and the cables are crossed round each other outside th...
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...
A general name for the hawse-timbers. ...
When a vessel rides by two anchors, without any cross in her cables. ...
·noun The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. ...
All those timbers abaft the midship section or bearing part of a vessel. ...
Two pieces of oak, usually called knight-heads (which see). ...
Those on each side of the stem, continued up for the security of the bowsprit. (See knight-heads.) ...
Those which form the bow of the ship. ...
They derive their name from being canted or raised obliquely from the keel. The upper ends of those ...
Such as are curved, crooked, or arched, for ship-building. ...
Short right-aft timbers for the purpose of strengthening the counter, and forming the stern. ...
See cross-piece. ...
Blocks of wood introduced in all well-built vessels between the frames, where the bilge-water may wa...
See floors ...
These consist of the floor-timbers, futtocks, and top-timbers; they are placed upon the keel at righ...
See futtocks. ...
Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the kelson. ...
The short timbers or futtocks in the cant-bodies, answering to the lower futtocks in the square-body...
The top-timbers in the fore-body, the heads of which stand perpendicular, and form an angle with the...
, or long top-timbers. Synonymous with double futtocks. Timbers in the cant-bodies, reaching from ...
The framing timbers in a vessel's quarter. ...
Those timbers which stand square with, or perpendicular to, the keel. ...
The first general tier which reach the top are called long top-timbers, and those below short top-ti...
To relieve that part of the cable which has for some time been exposed to friction in one of the haw...
See bevelling. ...
A provincial name for hawse-wood. ...
See stern-timbers. ...
See long timbers ...
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...
Putting in the beam-knees, coamings, &c., and dividing the spaces between the beams for fitting the ...