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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';.
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.
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.