HAWSE

The part of the bows close to the cables. The cables pa through the hawse ho'es, which are made in the timbers and in the hawse piece outside. When the ship has two anchors down, and the cables diverge from each other, the hawse Is said to be clear; when cro ed by the ship turning ha'f round, there is a cro in the hawse. Another cro makes an elbow; then a round turn: in the last two cases the hawse is said to be fold. The proce of disengaging the cables is called clearing hawse. The danger of a foul hawse is, that if it comes on to blow the cables cannot be veered from their friction against each other. Freshening hawse is veering out a little cable to expose a new surface to the friction in the hawse hole, or acro the cutwater..Qthwarl hawse implies acro the bows of a ve el at anchor. [s. 561]