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Example sentences for: hawser
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The word hawser has nothing whatever to do with the verb to hoist; neither does the `N.E.D.
The verb to haul has nothing whatever to do with either hawse or hawser.
I speak feelingly, for I was caught once in this particular trap, as shown by the article on hawser in my `Etymological Dictionary,' for which I was promptly rebuked by Mr. Wedgwood in 1882 (twenty-seven years ago); and that is why I so fully recanted my heresy in the `Supplement';.
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.
As for cat holes , they were two small holes cut into the stern above the gun ports on a sailing man o' war, on the same level as the capstan, and used for leading a stern hawser to the capstan when required to secure the ship astern.