Meaning & use
Hawsers
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Thick ropes or cables used for mooring or towing ships.
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The dockworkers secured the ship using heavy hawsers.
The tugboat's hawsers strained as it pulled the freighter into port.
A note on using this word
From Old French 'haucier', meaning to hoist; a 'hawser's length' was once used informally to gauge distances at sea.
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mooring ropescables
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