📚 noun • entry_id 42647
hawsehole
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The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed.
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.
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