hawsers 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. The ship parted her hawsers in the gale.

2. 28 Above, below and around them, girders and hawsers criss-crossed an apparently boundless gulf.

3. Above, below and around them, girders and hawsers criss-crossed an apparently boundless gulf.

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