Definitions for "Hawse"
Keywords:  moored, starboard, bow, towing, anchor
A hawse hole.
The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse.