Example sentences for: hawse

How can you use “hawse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It correctly derives hawser from the obsolete verb hawse, which had indeed the sense of “to hoist,” but is really a derivative, as shown, of the Latin altus.

  • The verb to haul has nothing whatever to do with either hawse or hawser.


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