Awning

[Low D. havenung, from haven, a shelter, or place of shelter, with ing annexed.] A covering of canvas spread over the deck of a ve el, or other roofle place, as a shelter from the weather. "Of these boards I made an awning over me."-Defoe. (Mar.) On ship-board, the A. is generally supported by a range of light posts, called stanchions , erected along both sides of the ship; in the middle it is supported by a complication of small cords called a crow's - foot . This having a resemblance to an axe or hatchet. Ax'elsen, or Ax'elsen Tott, a powerful Danish family who flourished in the latter half of the 15th century, and the members of which figured in the wars of Christian I. and John IV. of Denmark; and Karl Knutsen, and Eric the Pome rani an, kings of Sweden. Peter A. was the head of the family. Of his 9 sons, the eldest, Olaf, made himself master of Gothland; the 2d, Iver, retained that po e ion, and became a corsair; the 3d, Eric, was governor of Stockholm; and the 4th, Aage, became a Danish councillor of state.