Definition of "hawsers" []

• Plural form of hawser. (noun)

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• "At Waltham Abbey they have a curtain made of ship's hawsers, which is at the same time elastic and resistant. ""
• "The oyster pirates lay snugly together at short hawsers, the weather being fine, and they protested loudly at our ignorance in putting out such an unwarranted length of anchor-chain."
• "He stumbled over taut hawsers and piles of dunnage, tripped on crazy guy-ropes and insanely planted pegs, and fell again and again upon frozen dumps and mounds of hoarded driftwood."