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hawsehole en · NOUN

Etymology

From hawse + hole.

Meanings

1. The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed.
   • Its overlapping steel plates and the empty hawseholes, from which the anchors will soon be suspended, are visible. 2004, Nelson H. Lawry, Glen M. Williford, Leo K. Polaski, Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage, page 86:
   • Then he saw. a few feet aft of the hawsehole, a darker spot on the hull—someone had left a porthole open below the forecastle. in the hold that was the crews' quarters. 2002, David Sherman, Demontech, Book 1: Onslaught, page 21:
   • The bolsters can be seen outboard of the hawseholes, and the way they are cut away to permit the passage of the anchor-cables. 1986, Jean Boudriot, The Seventy-four Gun Ship, page 59:
2. A hole in a ship through which a hawser is passed.

Forms

Deriveds

through the hawsehole

Synonyms

cathole (hole through which a hawser is passed)

Translations (16)

it occhio di cubia (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · fi klyysi (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · pt escovém (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · sv klys (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · pt tubo do escovém (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · fr écubier (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · nb ankerklyss (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · nl kluisgat (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · fi silmäke (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · he פֶּתַח שָׁרְשׁרֶת הָעֹגֶן (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · de Klüse (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · bg клюз (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · ca escobenc (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · nb klyss (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · he מִכְנָס (nautical: hole for anchor rode) · es escobén (nautical: hole for anchor rode)