Hawser is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HAWSER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a large rope for mooring or towing a ship, also HALSER
• a thick rope or cable for mooring or towing a ship.
• large rope used on a ship
• A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
• large heavy rope for nautical use
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a mooring rope

Words related to HAWSER

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Words that contain HAWSER

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How to use HAWSER in a sentence

• He meant to pass the fresh hawser, but could not launch a boat, and Lister doubted if the men on the hulk could heave the heavy wire rope on board.
• The six-inch hawser had parted, and they were swinging by the two others, with the gale roaring like a lion through the spars and rigging.
• Monsieur Lieutenant, clap on the hawser, and run the lugger ahead, over her anchor, and see everything clear for spreading our pocket-handkerchiefs.
• These ropes were attached to a sort of hawser running round the outside bulwarks of the ship.
• As soon as the ship was stationary, Neb cast off the hawser, and Marble and he manned two oars.
• They have hold of a long hawser, with which the schooner is probably to be towed through the reef.
• Before these stretchers were secured, the ship was hove ahead by her cable, and the several parts of the hawser brought to an equal strain.
• The governor arrived on the spot, just as Bob had got a hawser to the whale and was ready to fill away for the South Cape channel again.
• To bring our broadside to bear upon it, a hawser was run out to the Severn, on our larboard bow, the ship was swung to the proper bearing, and we soon checked them.
• He dragged out one of perhaps ten or twelve feet in length and four or five inches in diameter, handling it as he would the same length of hawser.
• The workmen were carried to and from the mainland by a wire hawser and cradle, and the rising breastwork of masonry protected them from the beat of the sea.
• Instead, however, I gave her still more hawser, veered her, and dropped the second anchor.
• He shrugged his shoulders, and feeling his way to a coiled hawser sat down in the bight of it to contend with the first, faint touch of seasickness.
• A mortar was also brought for the purpose of firing a line over the vessel, to stretch a hawser between it and the shore.
• Then, shouting the order to make fast, the Gujarati flung a hawser across to the grab.
• At the island of Punchong kechil, on which our settlement stands, it is a common practice to moor the vessels by a hawser to a tree on shore.
• There we were again becalmed, and obliged to anchor in eighty-five fathoms water, and so near the shore as to reach it with a hawser.
• At low water, we made an attempt to get a hawser round the lost anchor, but did not succeed then.
• The steamer, still towing the Schooner, was just visible in the fog, at the other end of the great sagging hawser.
• He was backing the hawser out of the last of its half-hitches when a carriage was driven rapidly down to the stage and two tardy passengers hurried aboard.
• The bow men paid out slack, and Griswold and the black, dropping from the swinging stage, trailed the end of the wet hawser up to the nearest mooring-ring.
• Satisfied with what he saw, Griswold bade the negro keep watch and knelt to knot the hawser in the ring.
• James adhered to the treaty, because they feared that if they let go of the hawser, a word from Tokio would incite India to revolt.
• The hawser connecting the ship and steam tug snapped in two, being unequal to the tremendous strain, and they parted company.
• As the tide rose, we gave our grounded friends a lift with a hawser.
• So far so good, but it next occurred to my recollection that a taut hawser, suddenly cut, is a thing as dangerous as a kicking horse.
• It seemed shallow enough, and holding the cut hawser in both hands for a last security, I let myself drop softly overboard.
• It is uncertain what he might have done to us if the tender-hearted captain had not thrashed him into his cabin with a knotted hawser, and told us to go on deck.
• As soon as we were clear of the land, I brought-to, waiting for the launch, which was left behind to take up a kedge-anchor and hawser we had out, to cast by.
• The anchor was up, and the vessel was riding between wind and tide, with a hawser made fast to the rocks.
• At daylight, Captain Bertram, with the other boats, bore up for the raft, which had broken from the hawser during the night and drifted to some distance.

Similar words containing HAWS without suffix er

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