hawser in English

noun
1
a thick rope or cable for mooring or towing a ship.
Many of the ship's 625 passengers peered at the spectacle below, as the ship was moored along the pier and held by thick hawsers .

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1. There's a new hawser faked down there.

2. The fingers were pinched under a hawser.

3. Pay out the hawser fast. I do not want that anchor to drag.

4. An opening in the bow of a ship through which a cable or hawser is passed.

5. On the other side of the hawser was a hostile knot of young dockers.

6. Anchor chain hawser pipes shall be mounted on the port and starboard of the ship, made of steel plate. A casting anchor bell mouth shall be fitted at the lower end of hawser pipe.

7. The hawser can either be thick , heavy ropes or a thin steel cable use on ships.