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hawsehole

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aeehhloswStarts with HEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the hole that an anchor rope passes through

Word origin

From hawse + hole.

Used in a sentence

  • The bolsters can be seen outboard of the hawseholes, and the way they are cut away to permit the passage of the anchor-cables.
  • Then he saw. a few feet aft of the hawsehole, a darker spot on the hull—someone had left a porthole open below the forecastle. in the hold that was the crews' quarters.
  • Its overlapping steel plates and the empty hawseholes, from which the anchors will soon be suspended, are visible.

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