hawse-pipe
hawse-pipe . and sometimes they had three hundred fathom o' this here big hawser down in the locker coiled up, but he'd come in an' coil down through a hawse-pipe, you see, an' go down where there was nothing else. Yes J. D. A. WIDDOWSON JUL 1973 (See OED _hawse-pipe_) (said here...
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| Summary: | hawse-pipe . and sometimes they had three hundred fathom o' this here big hawser down in the locker coiled up, but he'd come in an' coil down through a hawse-pipe, you see, an' go down where there was nothing else. Yes J. D. A. WIDDOWSON JUL 1973 (See OED _hawse-pipe_) (said here of hawse-pipe through which hawser passes on a whaling ship) Not used Not used Not used |
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