| 单词 | to cross the hawse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cross the hawse 3. The space between the head of a vessel at anchor and the anchors, or a little beyond the anchors, esp. in athwart (†thwart) the hawse (cf. athwart-hawse adj. at athwart adv. and prep. Compounds), to cross the hawse, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > distance or angle between vessel and anchor hawse1630 trend1879 1630 J. Taylor Brave Sea-fight in Wks. iii. 39/1 In the darke night they might haue chained two or three Frigots together, and turning them vpon them, vpon the Ebbe, thwart their hawse, might much haue endangered them. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 332 Both fell foul one anothers houlses, through which mischance her boltsprit gave our mizen shrouds a [etc.]. 1666 London Gaz. No. 21/4 He fell thwart the Man of Wars Halse. 1667 London Gaz. No. 160/4 The Vice Admiral..intended then to cross the Hause. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 350 Then I lay a-thwart the Enemy's Harse. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xvi. 280 Nothing would suit Nelson but this four-decked ship, so we crossed the hawse of about six of them, and..were abreast of her. 1859 C. Reade Love me Little (Ward) ix. 112 ‘There are mischiefmakers behind’. ‘Ay?.. I'll teach them to come across my hawse’. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) If a vessel drives at her anchors into the hawse of another she is said to ‘foul the hawse’ of the vessel riding there; hence the threat..‘If you foul my hawse, I'll cut your cable’. < as lemmas |
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