Definition of "hawse-pipe" [hawse-pipe]

• Alternative spelling of hawsepipe. (noun)

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• "Even as he spoke, they heard the rumble of chain through hawse-pipe, and from the veranda saw a big black-painted schooner, swinging to her just-caught anchor."
• "As the chain roared and surged through the hawse-pipe he noticed a number of native women, lusciously large as only those of Polynesia are, in flowing ahu's, flower-crowned, stream out on the deck of the schooner on the beach."
• "Over their coffee, they heard the rumble of an anchor-chain through a hawse-pipe, tokening the arrival of a vessel."