Hawser

Short description: Nautical mooring line

Supply ratings handling a coil of 16 inches (410 mm) towing hawser (rope) at the Royal Navy's Naval Stores Department, Nore, Harwich, which supplies all sea-going ships with the stores and provisions that they need. Note that the coil is bigger than the men and they need a trolley to transport it.

The hawser is coiled on deck.

Hawser (/ˈhɔːzər/) is a nautical term for a thick rope used in mooring or towing a ship.^[1] A hawser is not waterproof, as is a cable. A hawser passes through a hawsehole, also known as a cat hole,^[2] located on the hawse.^[3]

References

↑ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 830 "hawser". Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014. https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=hawser.
↑ "Cathole at dictionary.com". http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cat-hole.
↑ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, pp. 829–30, ISBN:0-395-44895-6

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[1] The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 830 "hawser". Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014. https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=hawser.

[2] "Cathole at dictionary.com". http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cat-hole.

[3] The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, pp. 829–30, ISBN:0-395-44895-6