- the part of a bow where the hawseholes are located.
- a hawsehole or hawsepipe.
- the distance or space between the bow of an anchored vessel and the point on the surface of the water above the anchor.
- the relative position or arrangement of the port and starboard anchor cables when both are used to moor a vessel.
- (of a vessel) to pitch heavily at anchor.
- with both bow anchors out: a ship riding to hawse.
- the part of the bows of a vessel where the hawseholes are
- short for hawsehole, hawsepipe
- the distance from the bow of an anchored vessel to the anchor
- the arrangement of port and starboard anchor ropes when a vessel is riding on both anchors
- (of a vessel) to pitch violently when at anchor
