单词 | hawser |
释义 | hawsern. Nautical. a. A large rope or small cable, in size midway between a cable and a tow-line, between 5 and 10 inches in circumference; used in warping and mooring; in large ships now made of steel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel > large hawser1338 hawse1598 proviso1625 swing1850 1338 MS. Sacrist's Roll, Durham Item j cabilus magnus xl cubitorum. Item j hauceour xxx cubitorum. 1355–6 MS. Sacrist's Roll, Durham Item j hauucour et j alia corda. 1373 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 369 2 haucers pour boyropes, 2 touropes, 3 werpropes. 1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 200 An anwser weying iij. stone, viij. li. 1485–6 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 18 Cables of sundrie sortes vj, Caggyng cable j, Hauser j. 1485–6 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 36 Hawsers for the botes takle iiij. 1592–3 Act 35 Eliz. c. 8 Preamb. Cables, Halsors, and Cordage. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) ii. 609 With well-wreath'd halsers hoise Their white sails. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 46 Ships..have a Hasar or Rope ready to send one end ashore. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 178 We..carry'd out two Hawsers and Anchors to heave the Ship off. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. 230 He desired me to make fast a halser..to the ring-bolts of her bob-stays. 1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid x, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 393 Saturnia snaps the halser. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. vi. 205 With three huge hawsers the ship's stern was made fast. b. Used by confusion for hawse n. 3. ΚΠ 1684 T. Otway Atheist ii. 11 Laying your self athwart my Harser. 1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 443 (note) A barge..in great danger of running, as they call it, athwart the hawser and of oversetting. Compounds C1. General attributive. hawser-fashion adv. ΚΠ 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) 197 A rope laid hawser fashion is a rope consisting of any number of yarns according to the strength required, which divided into three strands, and each being twisted equally, are prepared to be laid into a rope. Categories » hawser-like adj. C2. Categories » hawser-bend n. a kind of hitch or knot. Categories » hawser-clamp n. a gripper for a hawser to prevent its veering out (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875). ΚΠ 1802 Mitchell in Naval Chron. 7 52 Daley was looking out at the hawser-hole. hawser-laid adj. made of three or four strands laid up into one. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [adjective] > made of rope or cord > types of twine1513 twice-laid1592 basten1677 cable-laid1723 hawser-laid1769 water-laid1795 registered1800 shroud-laid1800 whale-laid1812 strap-laid1839 four-strand1867 locked-coil1885 trifilar1903 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Ropes Ropes are either cable-laid or hauser-laid. c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 52 When three cablets are laid up together, it is called ‘hawser-laid’ rope. 1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. x. 313 Running rigging is hawser laid, right-handed. ΚΠ 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iii. 137 The saylers, chearing them with his owne presence amongst them at their halser worke. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1338 |
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