| 单词 | hawser |
| 例句 | The slaves were distressed, and requested we throw them down a hawser, that they might board us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z As the prow scraped the landing piles, Nat leaped ashore and caught the hawser. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z At Pier 41 the transpacific ocean liner President Madison snapped her hawsers and careened into the steamboat Harvester, sinking her. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She found him in his shorts, lying in the hammock that he had hung from the beams with a ship's hawser. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The next best thing to look at is the spokes and metallic hawsers of the Eye itself. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The two stroke oars cast off the stern hawsers and vaulted over the gunnels to their benches. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He tied one end of a hawser to a pillar and passed the other about the roundhouse top, taking the slack up, so that no one’s toes could touch the ground. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They moored her stern by the stout hawser lines, tossed out the bow stones, and waded in beyond the wash of ripples to mix their wine and cook their morning meal. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They untied their hawser, passing it through a drilled stone ring; then bent forward at the oars and caught the sea as one man, stroking. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Very strong steel hawsers with hooks on the ends of them were lowered from the front and rear of each helicopter. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He scales a tree in England with “two skeins of ancient hawser climbing rope, two ragged harnesses, and a motley bundle of jangling carabiners — some of them clearly homemade,” he writes. Review | He has the job every kid wants: He climbs trees for a living. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Bollards were first used in a maritime setting, where they were immovable objects to which a ship could safely lash its hawser after docking. Perspective | What a load of bollards: This Twitter account celebrates the barriers 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z He saved nearly 40 lives by diving into the churning seas with a rope, then used it to pull a thick hawser taut between the yacht and the beach as a lifeline for survivors. 'Tears are just below the surface': Iolaire tragedy remembered 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z After a match, my Achilles tendons felt like hawsers on a rusty barge, and as I clomped back to work I’d get passed by map-consulting tourists. Squash for the Midlife Slump 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Accordingly wire hawsers were lowered from the two bow-hawser pipes, and by dint of careful manoeuvring the shackles were engaged. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z Quickly the hawsers securing the submarine to the depot-ship were cast off, and U99, forging slowly ahead, picked up her station in line with the rest of the flotilla. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z The Times said the Titanic’s smug passengers lined the decks and watched the New York bob in the water after its hawsers snapped, “laughing with pride that they were aboard such a ship.” City Room: 100 Years Ago, the Titanic Disaster Captivated New York City 2012-04-08T19:00:39Z The tugs cast off, and a hawser was passed to the Northumberland, which took her in tow as far as Knob Channel, the Terrible bringing up astern. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The hawser, as you perceived, had to be taken down a precipice of nearly three hundred feet. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z When these took the weight of the cutter the wire hawsers were unshackled and the two men clambered back to the airship, which had now risen to nearly a thousand feet. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z In the darkness the manoeuvre was fraught with anxiety, for, had the slack of the hawser fouled the Basher's propellers, the destroyer would have been as helpless as the craft she was endeavouring to save. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z The pressure was at length too powerful for resistance, and the stream cable, with two six and one five inch hawsers, went at the same moment. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z The Agincourt was now picked up, and passing a hawser on board the Northumberland, took the lead in the maritime tandem. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z But although it seemed a forlorn hope, it was resolved to force her through the surf and sea under sail, and the hawser was cast off. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z Diaphanous, a wire hawser had been lowered from the bows of the airship and made fast to the tramp's after-winch. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z "Stand by to receive a hawser," commanded the lieutenant-commander of the unknown destroyer. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z The sail had been hauled down and the ship secured by hawsers made fast to the trunks of trees that grew upon the edge of the water. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z A hawser was now passed to the Terrible from the stern of the Bermuda, so that by towing that vessel she might be kept from swaying from side to side. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z They raise the anchor, and passing a hawser on board, attempt to tow the brig from the Sands, but make little progress. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The wire hawser, acting as a conductor, enabled him to hear with great distinctness, and possessing a good knowledge of English he was able to pick up scraps of conversation between the crew. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z Thrice he manoeuvred sufficiently close to establish communication between his ship and the drifting Warrior, Twice the flexible wire hawser parted like pack-thread. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z We'll rope the rafts together, but we must be ready to cut the hawser if there's any need. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z The hawser having been made fast, Will started the motor and set the hydroplane going at a speed of about ten miles an hour. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z A heavy sea strikes her bow; the steamer’s hawser tightens, strains, and breaks! The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z This gave sufficient tension to the hawser, which was now inclined at an angle of about thirty degrees. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z At the third attempt the hawsers held, and the Warrior slowly gathered way, wallowing astern of the Engadine at a rate of 4 knots--but every minute was taking the unvanquished cruiser nearer Britain's shores. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z There was coal grit on his wet duck jacket, and he had handled hawser and furnace rubble like one accustomed to them, in fact as a fireman or a sailor would have done. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z We shall have to make a hawser out of the halyards, and tow as before. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z At last he reaches the high bow of the life-boat, which is leaping and falling and jerking, tearing the hawser up and down in the seas, as if trying to throw him from his hold. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The ring of the Senhouse slip was knocked clear, and the hawser fell with a splash into the sea. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z At length the wire hawser began to groan as, under the increased strain, it rasped through the fair-lead. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z The hawsers were attached to the floe, and the men stood waiting for the result of the combat on which their lives depended. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Ruggles cast off the hawser and stowed himself near José; Will returned to his seat; and opening the throttle little by little he set the hydroplane going, at ten, fifteen, and finally twenty knots. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z When the hawser bore a strain, the log was hove, and the current found to be setting more than five knots. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z In less than fifteen seconds from the time the hawser had been slipped the hydrogen escaping from the leaky ballonets was ignited. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z Promptly came the reply that already the strain on the grapnel hawser was 2-½ tons. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Understanding this hint of what was coming, the explorers clung to their rocky breakwater by three heavy hawsers. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z A big ship usually brings up in the soft ooze of the opposite bank, but is got off at the next flood by the help of a few yoke of oxen and a strong hawser. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z We unmoored, weighed, stood to the eastward and anchored with the stream anchor, and a large hawser, in fifty fathoms water, about three miles from Success Bay. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z "We might run out a hawser and take her in tow," suggested Kenyon. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z From the trawler's stern a flexible wire hawser led beneath the foaming wake of the propeller, dipping with a sag that did not gladden the heart of the young officer of the watch. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Soon one hawser parted, and away went the schooner, with fearful velocity, and brought up against a berg. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Then a hawser was fixed to the headboards, and the vessel was towed back to the quay side. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Cables, hawsers, and rope, they make of a plant, called Quilineja, which is supposed to be the root of a species of Callixene. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z The trailing hawser glided over the rounded surface of the gasbag, but none of the men made any attempt to leave the gondolas and secure the rope. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z Way had been taken off her, while over her squat counter the wire hawser attached to the Lucas grapnel was "straight up and down" under the steady strain of some heavy and still submerged object. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z One of the six-inch hawsers had parted; its sound had scarcely been lost in the uproar before a sharp and shrill "twang! twang!" announced the snapping of the whale line. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Nevertheless it didn’t suit that hawser’s views to be down below in the run and see nothing of life. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Anchors and cables, hawsers and kedges, were abundantly supplied, because in warping into unknown places, or anchoring hastily, many an anchor is unavoidably broken or lost. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z Then the wreck of the mizzen was cut away, and the frigate was taken in tow by the Agile, her own sails being left standing to relieve the strain on the hawsers. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z "The tow has parted her hawser, and gone adrift." Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The place of the broken hawser had been supplied, and the worried craft strained away at three strong lines which held on bravely. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z I feel sure that a certain hawser on board the —— had a weird influence on the minds of all men who associated with it. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z The windlass was rattling on the forecastle, Wall-eye stood by the winch astern, and the surfboat was sliding towards the mangroves, where a big wire hawser was made fast, in the rain. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z Another hawser was taken on shore, and she was hauled broadside on until she lay, with only a few inches of water under her keel, within ten feet of the line of rock. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z The men had, however, brought a rope with them, and the winch next hove the schooner's stoutest hawser off. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z He held on till the Trenton came down upon them, when, with the others who were saved in other parts of the rigging, he crept along a hawser and somehow reached the Trenton. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Johnny caught him in arms like heavy lengths of hawser, and the back of his coat split from the sudden surge of strength that went through them. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Tom leaned against the rail, holding up the lamp, and the thing that had the shape of a man sat gibbering on a coil of hawser in the midst of the bridge deck. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z Strong hawsers were then to be fastened to the paddle, and brought in one on each quarter and attached to the drum of the wheel. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z Steel hawsers, supplemented with great baulks of timber of immense thickness, anchored by chains and grapnels, were supplied with torpedoes on both sides, in addition to the mines outside. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z They paid a hawser out from its bows, and bent the nags on to that.” Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z There was not a hawser loose on the whole ship. The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z The stricken man still squatted, unconcerned, upon the hawser, mowing and grimacing, while he clawed at the hemp in a fashion that suggested the antics of a pleased animal, with swollen hands. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z The end of a hawser was put into the boat, and the men rowed with it to the battery. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z The hawsers were let out, the anchor dropped, the sails furled, and the vessel jerked and shook. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z When Vancouver visited it in 1792, no less than eight ships were in it, most of them small, and secured to the shore by hawsers. The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island 2011-11-15T03:00:19.650Z He ordered his hawser to be attached to the cable, and called his crew to arms. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z The windlass clanked its hardest, wire hawsers splashed, and the Cumbria had swung across to the opposite forest when the big anchor rose to her bows. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z From trunk to trunk swung creepers thick as a ship's hawser, trailing in long festoons or interlacing and writhing around each other like great snakes. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z Boats, anchors, hawsers, etc., were got on board again with the utmost alacrity, and the ship floated off unhurt after having been eleven hours upon the reef. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z At dead low water all the slack of the four hawsers was taken in, and once more came a tedious wait for the rising tide. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Undaunted, the Tremendous sent out a third hawser. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z And if you were in a heavy sea-way, with your masts gone by the board, bothered if old Jack Weathereye wouldn’t pay out a hawser and give you a helping hand himself. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z A boat was lowered from the destroyer, and rowed over to us carrying a hawser. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z But at earliest dawn there was much shouting and giving of orders; the men running fore and aft on deck; other men on shore casting off hawsers. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z One of the hawsers had slipped, and the work of six long hours was wasted. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Slowly the Hammerer glided astern for almost her own length; then, with a bang that was audible above the roar of the guns, the hawser parted. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z We had nothing to do but to 234 watch the raft of timber and flotsam expand about our hawsers, a matter of some concern to us, for the current ran at six knots. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z And so the gangway is hauled up, and the rope hawsers quickly wound in. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z He called away every boat, and by means of hawsers to each the Wolverine was finally moved further away by nearly a mile. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z Then, by means of a steel hawser attached to two sets of trucks, they were able to draw the bulk of their goods to the higher level with little difficulty. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z On the jetty were the dockyard Staff-captain's men, ready at the word of command to slip "springs" and hawsers; but the usual setting of the picture of a departing man-of-war was absent. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Said we’ll never get the hawsers to run out with them bugs in the hawse pipes. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Old Hopgiant mowed the whole meadow, and then flew up into the air, and the rich man had to go along hanging to him like a hawser. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z They paid the hawser out over the yacht’s stern, and gradually got her in tow. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z By the light of several lanterns the slack of the hawsers was taken in and the two canoes pinned down so far as the united efforts of all hands would permit. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z To this was bent a stout hawser, which, as soon as it was made fast to the stump of a tree, was carried to a motor-capstan on deck. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z When we were well out into the bay they let go the hawser and the little craft began to ride the swells. The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin 2011-08-09T02:00:24.217Z So the Dauntless was moored to a hawser from the stern of one of the ships at anchor. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z This would ease the hawsers and the yacht, and at the same time the crew on board the Lucca would be in communication with the yacht, and able to convey their wishes at once. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z His commands rang through the still air of late afternoon; his eye saw the hawsers cast off, saw the tug take hold.... The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z In another few seconds the rope would be wound round and round the boss as tightly as a steel hawser. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z At this, the new financial manager slacked off on the hawser of secrecy a little—just a little. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z To let go every cable and hawser which held her to the block was the work of a moment, for every one was on deck keenly on the look-out. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z The hawsers creaked softly as they swung in the tide, and a faint light shone up from the forecastle hatch, while from aft there was a tolerably bright glow from the cabin skylight. Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake 2011-07-15T02:00:21.010Z Steam won; and the old man immediately signed to the mate to get the hawser up. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z As he rose to the surface the two seamen who had remained on deck to cast off the hawser grabbed him by the shoulders and hauled him into safety. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z The back was not pliable or bending; it was hard, braced with sinews tough as hawsers, and supported a pair of shoulders that could sustain the weight of an ox. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z When the cook suggested the lightening of the old ship, Chips the carpenter raised his axe and took up a position beside the hawser that bound the Church Hulk to the Ship of State. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z Slip the hawser, and haul up the jib and staysail. Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake 2011-07-15T02:00:21.010Z In the first place we had no hawser fit for it, in the next we had made no preparations for such an emergency. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Gaudy idea, wasn’t it, doing the Dent Blanche by means of a hawser? Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z "I don't know so much about that," said O'Hara, pointing aft, where a crowd of Japanese seamen were engaged in preparing a large flexible steel hawser. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z What he meant was that if we happened to run across his hawser, I would find my 164 new iceboat as badly left in the lurch as my old one was last year.” Harry Watson's High School Days The Rivals of Rivertown 2011-06-16T02:00:20.053Z He never got up from his seat while Andy cast free the shore hawser. Airship Andy or The Luck of a Brave Boy 2011-06-13T02:00:31.130Z Great Cæsar! how we did snake the hatches off before the order came, forgetting that we hadn't got a hawser fit for the job. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Why, he suggested, in the most matter-of-fact way, fixing a hawser from the top of it to the glacier below. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z On the fourth occasion a hawser was sent off to the Myra, while in addition the pinnace was towed into midstream with a large anchor slung underneath her keel. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z The bulwarks and outside fittings, anchors, hawsers, and hawse-holes, seemed wonderfully large to our landsman eyes, and the inside fittings, lockers, etc., as wonderfully small and compact. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z "She hath the rascal in tow, look you, with his belt for hawser." The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z We, however, had a very large long-boat, for which there was no room on deck, and, contrary to the usual practice it was put overboard, and kept astern at the end of a small hawser. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z A hawser was passed from the tug, then full speed astern—Hurrah—she's moving! Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z Cautiously the lighter-draughted Myra was backed astern until a couple of stout hawsers were passed to her from the stranded vessel. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z A rough breeze was on the Mersey, with a strong quick current; and by some mischance the hawser, holding the two boats together, suddenly gave way. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Just below they discovered a safe bay, where the water was deep, and a convenient tree back from the shore offered a chance to secure the hawser. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z More by dint of the bo'sun's energy, I believe, than any vitality in the limp crew, the anchor was at last lifted, the hawser passed to the hovering tug, and away we glided ghost-like down-stream. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The goal of his desire, the aim of all his dearest dreams, was a tugboat, a smart little devil of a craft with a proper wheel-house amidships and booms and hawsers aft. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z Three times the tramp endeavoured without success to tow off the Pelikan, but on each occasion the hawsers snapped. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z In a few minutes Jimmy jumped on board the sloop and helped Moran to cast off the hawser while the gig struggled back. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z “Get the hawser aboard, and let’s push off,” said Frank, a little concerned lest Luther should come in sight even then, and demand to be taken back. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z So we drew slowly round to the North Foreland, where the tug slipped our hawser; all sail was set, and we were fairly started on our voyage. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Now, when he wanted to go aboard, all he had to do was to unfasten this latter hawser, climb over the side, and draw the Wireless back to her original anchorage. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z Then came the metallic click of the hook engaging with the wire hawser from the derrick. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Her gig brought off a hawser, and a message inviting Jimmy to come on board. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z It was about ten the next morning that the hawser was made fast to a wharf at the river front of Memphis; which lies on a sort of bluff, high above the Mississippi. The Outdoor Chums on a Houseboat 2011-04-13T02:00:14.140Z At last, after two or three departures of the tug in fits of irritation, a bargain was struck, and the ever-welcome command came pealing forward, "Get the hawser along!" The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The steamer's wheels began to move; the captain was already on the bridge, over the starboard wheel, and had given the order to let go the hawsers. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Already the hawsers and springs holding the two vessels were straining almost to breaking point. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Her skipper stated that he had left Jimmy with a broken hawser, hanging on to the collier, which was dragging him to leeward, nearer the dangerous coast. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Then the beaching boats, casting off hawsers, were rowed straight for the shore, some half mile off. Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z Here she was lashed to a hummock by a hawser which three of the crew carried overside and hitched in a bowline of staunch hemp. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z "Captain," I began, when another sea lifted the brig's bow high in the air; then, with a dull crash, we struck stern on, and I saw the hawser had either parted or been cut away. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z Two trawlers sailing parallel with each other drag through the sea a steel hawser which is attached to each of them. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z From near the fore and after gangways boats were then lowered, bearing hawsers; and by means of these, when duly landed, the vessel was solemnly drawn to shore. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z In an incredibly short time she brought to ahead of us, and in less than five minutes had our brig firmly secured to her by two hawsers, with about fifty fathoms play. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z Stirling peered out from behind the hummock, grasped the hawser, and drew himself forward. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z As for himself, if three or four good men would stand by him, he would attempt to cut away the masts, and perhaps save the ship as the hawser was made fast to the Europa. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z The hawser drags the mines along, and they are then picked up. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z A hawser of any size commands a big price second hand.” Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z He ran up to a man arrayed like himself in foul weather costume, who stood steadying himself at a hawser post, and who was giving orders to the others. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z More irons had been driven home, lines were brought aboard and fastened to cleats, a strong hawser was passed about the giant flukes. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Suddenly he bent his glance at the hawser that was made fast to the Europa, and then pointed over to the seething water under our stern. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z The trawlers themselves may strike a mine, and be blown up; or two mines drawn along by the hawser may collide when they are near to the trawlers, in which case the same result follows. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z And when the coils yanked themselves loose and the rope ran too swiftly, even making the leather mittens smoke, Wade, with his cant-dog, threw the hawser hard against the stump and checked it. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Presently, the Resolution's people carried out two kedge-anchors, with hawsers to each; and these found ground a little without the bower. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z Without consulting Marr, the second mate gave the order to bring in the hawser and hoist easy canvas on the fore and main. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z By ——! those fellows on board the Europa are paying out the hawser. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z After a full half-hour's hard work, Milenko and his mates managed to get to the floating hawser and to haul it up; then they rowed lustily back to the ship with it. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The hawser, made smooth as glass by attrition, was steely and stiff with the cold. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z The hawser had but just been loosened from the bitt when the drag of the waters began. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z The rattle of the rusty chain through the hawser woke him to the terror of the situation. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z We were fifty feet from that rock when the hawser was made fast and had a strain on it, and now it's right under her stern. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z This was done, but the hawser, without a buoy, could hardly be got at; it was, therefore, pulled back, a broken spar was tied at its end, and then it was again cast overboard. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z It was while Wade held the line, waiting for the men to re-coil the hawser into safe condition to run, that the Honorable Pulaski Britt appeared. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z "The hawsers have been cast off, an' now the brig is beginnin' to move through the water!" A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z Here the Niagara and the Agamemnon were connected by a hawser, being about a quarter of a mile apart. The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph 2010-12-29T03:00:29.577Z The hawser tightened like an iron bar, but suddenly fell as if it had parted or been cast off. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z The trailing hawser had caught upon a hive, to make wholesale ruin of it; and the incensed insects were taking revenge for the destruction of their honeyed store. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z The great hawser spun itself off the spindle of the post and chased down the hill in spirals, utterly loose and free. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z The slackened hawser, which a short time previous had been so taut, told that Bob's explanation was the correct one, and there was no necessity to urge either the boys or Joe any further. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z Another heading wide of off, and Strauss - his huge forearms like lengths of steel hawser - lifts blade away from trouble. Live - England v Bangladesh 2010-05-27T09:34:00Z If I can get a hawser to the whaler to keep the brig's stern from this boulder under our port quarter, it may save the ship. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z The thick hawser of raw hide was no light weight in itself, to say nothing of the huge thing that needed pulling along. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z The men at the snub-post stated afterwards that he came to them, hearing Pulaski Britt’s orders, elbowed them aside with an oath, and took the hawser. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Joe Taylor went into the engine-room, and before he had raised the necessary pressure two stout hawsers were made fast fore and aft, while more fenders were lowered to prevent chafing. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z The hawser was wet and cold, and seemed fifty times its original length, but the work was done. H.M.S. —— So please consider that the hawsers are being loosed, the farewells being spoken. The Idyl of Twin Fires So the towers were called back on board; the hawser drawn on deck, and stowed away in a coil for future service of a similar kind, should it be required. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z The way on her was so strong that one of the bow hawsers parted, but otherwise the launch went so smoothly that no ship-builder could have wished it better. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 "Why don't you swing this hawser right aboard of her?" the red-nosed man proposed. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z The riggers at the entrance leapt into sudden activity, and for five minutes the din and clatter of capstans, shrilling of whistles, and splash of hawsers in the water broke the spell of silence. H.M.S. —— Our masts and timbers made good at length, Mr. Tuchet called the crew aboard, and bade them cast off the hawser that held us, which was soon done, and we departed. Idonia: A Romance of Old London The brig has on board some goods, a chain cable and a hawser, the latter taken from the pirates. Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... This alteration of course brought the wind and sea on the Medusa's quarter, causing her to override repeatedly, and so put a great strain on the towing hawser each time that it tautened out. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War By the aid of the tackle the five men soon had the anchor in the boat with a manilla hawser, one end of which was made fast to the winch, coiled on top. A Runaway Brig; or, An Accidental Cruise 2011-01-02T03:00:16.390Z She crawled slowly on, using her own engines, the hawsers leading to the furiously agitated paddle tugs on bow and quarter sweeping slack along the stream. H.M.S. —— The village rises steeply above a very narrow cove on the north coast, sheltered, but difficult of access, vessels having to be warped into it by means of hawsers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" There was no opening, but the hawsers were suddenly cut. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories No hawser could stand this long, and it promptly parted. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War When a tow of six vessels was obtained, a large tug towed us up the river, each ship being fastened to the other with large hawsers, stem and stern. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document The heavy bow hawsers fell splashing in the water, and the jingle of engine-room telegraph bells echoed up the walls of the entrance. H.M.S. —— Weigh thine anchors and unloose thine hawsers, O mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set: this I, Priapus of the harbor, bid thee, O man, that thou mayest set forth to all thy trafficking. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 At last the good-byes were all finished, the visitors had left the ship, the hawsers were thrown off, and the vessel began to move slowly towards the dock gates. Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War She parted wire hawser after hawser, until there could have been few hawsers left on board the ships that were convoying her. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War The end of a large hawser was fastened to the vessel's head, the rest put overboard, in hopes that in dragging through the water the strain would swing us head on. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document Slowly she gathered way, and to the clatter of the dockyard capstans as the slack of the hawsers was taken in, her forty-foot curved stem passed the black caisson gates. H.M.S. —— The iron gates were closed; the windlasses were clicking rapidly as the mooring hawsers were being wound around, and the great paddle wheels had begun to stir the waters of the slip to seething foam. With Edge Tools A hawser had been stretched across the mouth of the basin. The Social Gangster Destroyer after destroyer, the Mentor, Aurora, and others, took her in tow in turn as the hawsers parted; and, finally, the Arethusa brought her in. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War The waves washed the hawser all around the bark's bow and sides. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document As she passed the hawsers came with her, transferred from bollard to bollard by gangs of staggering men. H.M.S. —— ‘Captain,’ said I, ‘can’t you tie an anchor onto a hawser, and bait the flukes with a boa constrictor and make sure of him?’ Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder So you see I'd got a tug, and the crew aboard, so the next thing was to take in the hawsers, shove off, and let her drift on the ebb. A Man in the Open Attempts were made to take her in tow, but the hawsers parted, and she drifted helplessly on to the Cutler shoal in a sinking condition. The Harwich Naval Forces Their Part in the Great War By this means, several men had been hauled to safety when the dying frigate lurched wildly and parted the hawser. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day The leader swung round on a wide curve, and, as if held by one long elastic hawser, the flotilla followed in her gleaming wake. H.M.S. —— The balloon was inflated by this time, and was tugging at the heavy steel hawsers by which it was attached to the cutter's hull. Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 And over they went, the whole black line of them, right through the rapids, swimming and struggling in the buffeting surge, getting across somehow, hawser and all, where white men must have perished. Careers of Danger and Daring "All right, throw us your hawser," says he. Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 All this being done, the large hawsers were rove through the blocks, their purchases lashed to them, and partially overhauled over the cliffs. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day Arriving at our buoy, we find that the boat which we had manned, ready for lowering, is unnecessary, as a German boat was waiting to carry out our hawser to the buoy. Harper's Round Table, August 13, 1895 A denser black loomed against the darkness, vaguely outlining the ship's hull, and the head-boat grated on the long hawser holding the after anchor, thrown out to take up the swing of the ebb-tide. Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 Then the captain of the tug, in his peril, ordered the hawser cut, and thirty-nine men of the wrecking-crew were left to their fate on the abandoned wreck. Careers of Danger and Daring Miss Lorelei took hold of the hawser, and Father Neptune give his horses a poke with his pitchfork, and my eyes! the old thing groaned and started. Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 He—Benjamin Corvet—had taken charge of the wheel of the tug; three men were handling the hawser in ice and washing water at the stern. The Indian Drum "There's a tug out yonder that's parted the hawser of her tow." Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 I having 175 Dongolese with my Caughnawaga boys and about 200 Egyptian soldiers they parted the hawser on the first pull, while getting another hawser Col. Our Caughnawagas in Egypt a narrative of what was seen and accomplished by the contingent of North American Indian voyageurs who led the British boat Expedition for the Relief of Khartoum up the Cataracts of the Nile. Finally, when she was ready they made fast a sixteen-inch hawser, and put on full steam to pull her off into deep water. Careers of Danger and Daring Then he spied the hawser drawn tight over the bow, and he turned pale, his knees knocked together, his teeth chattered. Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 Suddenly all was light about me as, aware of the breaking of the hawser and alarmed by the shot, the searchlight of the Miwaka turned upon the tug. The Indian Drum At one side, guyed by half a dozen small hawsers, hung a battering-ram, a twelve-foot spar bound with iron, its nose pointing full-butt at a chrysanthemum in high relief on the belly of the bell. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The two men, Retoc and Hultax had arrived barely in time to see them unfastening the hawsers of the Royal Barge. Quest of the Golden Ape Once more they began at the beginning, and in time had another hawser ready, and tried again. Careers of Danger and Daring At the word he opened the steam throttle till the merest jet was fed to the cylinders, and gently drew ahead of the boats, slowly stretching out the hawser connecting them till it was taut. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War I thought that if now the hawser should break, I would be rid of that ship and perhaps of the owner who was on board as well. The Indian Drum The warning, though rough, was all needed, for hardly had I obeyed it, when bang—whigge! the great hawser flew taut like some huge bowstring, just where my head had been a moment before. A Veldt Vendetta From the Britannia to the landing-place, which was brightly draped with crimson cloth, hawsers were stretched and thus a clear lane was kept among the crowd of craft for the passage of the Royal boat. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 This time the hawser parted by grinding on the beach as they dragged her. Careers of Danger and Daring I say, dash it all, that's the very sound our steel hawser made when it parted, strand by strand, at Dix-mude. The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen The tug leaped suddenly; there was no longer any tow holding it back, for the hawser had parted; and I knew, Father, the reason was that Spearman had cut it! The Indian Drum She was worked by a hawser and half a dozen black fellows, and a very rough specimen of a white man, with a great tangled beard, and a stock of profanity both original and extensive. A Veldt Vendetta Jim Freeman passed a hawser, and when it was made fast a midshipman, who acted as if he owned the whole of Chesapeake Bay, came aboard with two marines. Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington Whereupon it was: "Cut hawsers, everybody!" and drop these pulley-blocks and tackle-fixings, useless now, and let her go, let her go, since there is no stopping her, and Heaven help the boys on board! Careers of Danger and Daring "You are here," said the man, "because I have put a wedge against the hawser above you." The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen A small line was drifted down to the tug and to this a hawser was attached which they hauled aboard. The Indian Drum Even so, two hawsers may embrace the same pile, and yet neither one of them touch any other part except that pile, of what the other hawser is attached to. Essays in Radical Empiricism Now, deeply yearning o'er our deathful fate, With joyful hope of India's shore elate, We loose the hawsers and the sail expand, And, upward coast the Ethiopian strand. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Tell 'em to slack away on that starboard hawser. Careers of Danger and Daring Then came the signal from Captain Rothwell to draw in the hawsers, and let the trim vessel glide. Maid Sally But Stafford had surprised him at the hawser and had seen. The Indian Drum We could easily trace the snake with all its curves, as it became lighter, because it was a long cork hawser, made for the purpose of sustaining the net. The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative When he sped into the slip, there were many hands ready to grasp the hawser tossed to them by Captain Ichabod, and make it fast to a "punchin." When the Cock Crows As she was slowly gathering way she passed the liner New York, another ocean monarch, which was lying like a rock moored by seven great hawsers of iron and steel. Titanic With hawsers and warps barely fast, the great pumps are hove up in air and swung over the hatchway of the doubtful hold. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Is it nothing to grasp a hawser and find it a rope of sand? Eden An Episode About two hundred meters of this easily perceptible hawser were floating on the water, and gave us a tail with many curves in it. The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative He then seized an axe, and first divided the hawser at the bows, and afterwards the one attached to the stern. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 About 1892 the British navy took the matter up and began experiments on a larger scale, substituting wire hawsers for chains and using old gunboats to divide the booms up into sections of convenient length. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Without a jar or surge the wreck becomes a floating ship; she lists a little, as the towing hawser creaks and strains, and we draw off gently to seaward. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The fore-braces came in, hand over hand, the hawsers were tossed overboard and the tug fell astern. Doubloons—and the Girl At a distance of about two hundred meters in front of the sailer, there was a strong tug pulling the full-rigged ship with a thick hawser, so that it could make better time. The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative As we pass the standing tug, all her hands are hauling the hawser aboard. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Then she heard his cry of “Got the boat,” followed by the clank of a sculling oar and the creak of the guiding-wheel on the hawser. Cynthia's Chauffeur The waft comes from heeling dock tugs that strain at their hawsers, spurring the muddy tide to froth in their task of moving the helpless vessels in the basin. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The next morning the hawsers were cast off, and the mainsail run up again, while the Princess surged away into the middle of the current. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 After Jack had made the small hawser fast he started the taxi stunt and presently they were moving past the outlying clumps of mangroves with never a bit of trouble. Eagles of the Sky With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes "Only six hundred, Cap., only six hundred, with your hawser." The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea The hawsers laid ashore for landfasts had been treacherously cut, but without doing any injury to the ship. Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The press of work about the decks has lessened with the hawsers and docking gear stowed away. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Evan could hear all the sounds attendant upon making a landing; the casting lines thrown ashore, the hawsers pulled over the deck, the jingle to the engine room signalling that all was fast. The Deaves Affair Everything worked without a hitch, the hawser was got on board and the breeches-buoy hauled out. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers He stopped cursing, to blow his whistle—a signal for us to shorten in the towing hawser. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea When the wind is east Sumner's Islands seems to tug at its moorings like a cruiser swinging at a short hawser in the shelter of Stony beach. Old Plymouth Trails The Fürst ranged to the wash of our sternway as we cleared the piers; her hawsers strained and creaked, then held her to the bollards of the quay. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Actual pay and standard pay are like a vessel and a tug attached to each other by a hawser, which allows one to drift far from the other but does not let them part company. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy As soon as the hawser got wet and heavy with snow and the ice from the blowing spray, it began to sag so that it nearly touched the water. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers "Hundred 'n fifty, 'n your hawser," he said. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Up rush Decatur and his officers, and cut the hawser with their swords. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools The sea-tug that has till now been a quiet partner in operations, smokes up and backs in astern to pass a hawser to the wreck. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war This kind of attachment was found to be more convenient than the mode of passing the hawser through the ring of the buoy when the vessel was to be made fast. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) It did not take long for them to get first a strong rope and then the big hawser aboard, and make fast. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers To his pleased surprise, the Old Man came over to leeward, and, after a last wrangle about the hawser, took him on at the satisfactory figure of three hundred dollars. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea First form with hawser No. 1 a loop as in Fig. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging The tugs guiding her sheer strain at the hawsers and lie over in a cant that shows the tremendous weight of their charge. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war She had then only to be steered very close to the buoy, when the salvagee was laid hold of with a boat-hook, and the bite of the hawser thrown over the cross-head. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) As soon as the hawser was aboard, the Northwestern began to heave up to her anchors. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers In the water its weight is so little that a three-inch manilla hawser would raise it, let alone a steel cable. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 An American Whipping is sometimes used for the ends of hawsers. Knots, Bends, Splices With tables of strengths of ropes, etc. and wire rigging A row-boat dances in the wash of their screws as it is backed in to the liner's bows to pass a hawser to the stage. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The gale continued to increase, and the vessel rolled and pitched in such a manner that the hawser by which the tender was made fast to the buoy snapped, and she went adrift. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) The strain on the Miami was extremely great, but the hawser held well, although the Northwestern yawed frightfully. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers The steamer was coming in pretty fast, and the pier being encumbered with nets and with crans of newly caught fish, they reached the mooring-place just as the hawser was being thrown ashore. The Adventure League There was an answering splash, a sudden rasp of hawser, the booms swung idle, and the yacht imperceptibly settled into her berth. Wild Oranges A light anchor attached to a hawser was silently let down into the water. Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow But while this was in operation the hawser of the kedge was chafed through on the rocky bottom and parted, when the vessel was again adrift. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) To this bridle was bent the ten-inch hawser of the Miami, and the derelict was towed into Tampa Bay. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers So far so good; but it next occurred to my recollection that a taut hawser, suddenly cut, is a thing as dangerous152 as a kicking horse. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) He turned forward and half absently noted the increasing strain on the hawser disappearing into the dark tide. Wild Oranges Her big hawser had parted and her chain was only serving to slightly check her way toward the rocks. The Seiners The mail steamer sailed promptly at the hour assigned, hauled out into the stream by a couple of noisy little tugs, with two-inch hawsers made fast to stem and stern. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Her great, smooth bow lay straight ahead, metal hawser arm spanning the thirty feet between them. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 The hawser was as taut as a bowstring—so strong she pulled upon her anchor. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) A second hawser now reached into the darkness. Wild Oranges They took the line, hauled in the hawser at the end of it, made that fast to the windlass, and then we started off with her in tow. The Seiners There has also been a steel hawser strung from the bow across the highest point of the vessel to the stern, so that the submersible can underrun a net without entangling the superstructure. The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner The hawser arm's right in our mooring holes. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Take ten men and lay me out a good anchor astern, with a stout hawser. The Pirate Woman The grapnel caught on the bottom, surely and firmly; but the moment there came any strain on the seemingly stout hawser that held it, the latter parted like a thread, and the "Swallow" was adrift! St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. Scribner's Illustrated But the Atlamalcan tugboat, if tied by a hawser to the reptile could not have drawn it forth, for it will allow itself to be pulled asunder before yielding. Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America In the dark, unseen by the enemy, he pulled himself up the side of a smaller ship, and, cutting hawsers, scudded for the open sea. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters But Bowman had already seized the depth charge from his back and hooked it on the hawser arm above. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 "Ready for the anchor—lower away!" roared Hanglip in the boat, where already was piled coil on coil a great hemp hawser. The Pirate Woman The windlass grunted and whined as the schooner came up on her hawser with a thump, and overhead a useless jib slatted and rattled. The Harbor of Doubt Two small steamboats were lying at the landing, and before the terrorized crews could cut the hawsers and drift out into the stream, Calhoun and his men were on board and the boats were theirs. Raiding with Morgan A B. and A. boat picked us up three weary days later, and towed us at the end of an extremely long hawser into the very place to which I wanted to go. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 The hawser arm must be broken; with a depth charge, of course. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 A trawler was employed to tow a submarine by a submerged hawser. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships And at last the great hawsers were flung out and made fast, and the voyage was ended. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue This was followed by a sudden slackening of the hawser, and a few minutes later the Sumter's black hulk showed itself on the starboard bow. Marcy The Blockade Runner And from the sheath his lightning sword flew out E'en as he spake: with naked blade he smote the hawser through,580 And all are kindled at his flame; they hurry and they do. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse A long wire hook craned from its top, and this hook Bowman would fasten on the hawser arm. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 As the light increased it was seen that a stout wire hawser was trailing in the water from the starboard bow, and suspicion of some new evidence of sea kultur increased. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships Run a hawser from the anchor in aft here on the quarter. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main "Cast off the Herndon's hawser and stand by to pass it aboard of us." Marcy The Blockade Runner There was a loud splash beneath the bows, while shadowy figures that howled a weird ditty as they hove the hawser in, rose and fell black against the foam-flecked sea on the dripping forecastle. Thurston of Orchard Valley The octopi ship had grasped them with another of its hawser arms, and was pulling them away. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 With a mightier shove than before the monkey was launched into the air, and the rope stiffened and held like a ship's hawser. The Monkey That Would Not Kill They had both received instructions, one to station himself at the palm tree, the other to cover the hawser where it ran along the shore before it entered the water. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main "Haul in your own hawser and make sail and follow us into port," were the instructions he received, and which he at once proceeded to act upon. Marcy The Blockade Runner The hawser was cut, and we wore round under our jib; the top-sails were hoisted and filled out before the breeze, and we began our voyage toward home. Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 Ships being loaded to the deck rails were moored by their great hawsers alongside docks groaning under immense freight deposited upon them. The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska Whether any saved themselves on it, the two clinging to the hawser could not see. The Wild Geese The whole crew apparently piled on to the anchor hawser in the hope of pulling the ship's stern around so that the wind would take her on the other bow. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main Up anchors and loose the hawsers, sailor, set every stitch of canvas. Rosinante to the Road Again It was found necessary to-day to move the frigate still farther in, and four or five hawsers were laid out for the purpose of warping her a-head. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island Meanwhile the divisions on deck had got hawsers over the launch amidships, the chains unbent, the anchors lashed down on the forecastle, and the quarter boats triced well inboard and secured with the davits. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life He was stripping himself to his underclothes while he talked: and in haste, fearing that he might feel the hawser slacken and dip—a sign that the tide had turned. The Wild Geese "Haul away, for God's sake!" cried Morgan; but the hawser came in board through their hands with a readiness and ease that showed the anchor had not taken the ground. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main By the time that Bill, followed by an ever increasing crowd, had reached the “station,” the men with the hawser arrived from the port. The Tale of Timber Town The men had hurried through their dinner, for they knew that the time allowed them would be short, and began casting off hawsers, coiling down ropes, and preparing for a start. Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California Pieces of timber from the broken boats, worn out sails, old iron, and various odds and ends were hastily gathered into a heap, lashed together with chains, and launched overboard, with two strong hawsers attached. Harper's Young People, April 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly 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. Tales of the Fish Patrol A heavy hawser was dragged through the surf and made fast high up on the sturdy palm tree. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main The hawser was pulled taut, till it ticked. The Tale of Timber Town The next morning at daybreak the sail was hoisted, the hawsers thrown off from the shore, and the flat made her way up the river. Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California Lund sent men ashore over the ice, climbing to the promontory crags with hawsers by which they tied up schooner, floe and all, to the land. A Man to His Mate Zeke obeyed readily enough, hauled in the hawser, and made the loop fast over the piling. Heart of the Blue Ridge Hank had the stern hawser in his hands by this time. The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise I want six men to go down to the port for a ship’s hawser, a thick ’un, a long ’un. The Tale of Timber Town Then they cut the hawser and hoisted sail. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson A stout hawser was bent on to her, and after another hour of pulling and tugging, backing and filling, we slipped off the rocks, and floated out into the channel. The Land of Thor Tools, small spares, Pyrenes, electric lamps, clocks, binoculars, telescopes, petrol and oil funnels, oil squirts, grease guns, machine guns, headlights, tail lamps, steel hawsers, crowbars, shovels, picks, inspection lamps, and last, but not least, ammunition. Life in a Tank “Coil the hawsers, Hank,” directed the young skipper. The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise I want those men to bring that there hawser, and meet me in front of the Police Station; an’ we’ll see if I can show you the way to manage the Law.” The Tale of Timber Town While the hawsers were being spliced, Will shouted to the pirates to cut away the wreckage from their ship, and when this was done he started with his prize in tow. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson I have got the buoy with a length of rope on the chain ready to slip," Ben said, "and a spar lashed to the hawser. A Chapter of Adventures Instead he had saved explosives by attaching steel hawsers to the houses and by means of tractors had pulled them down, so that the roof and sides fell in on the foundation. Life in a Tank In that instant Tom, leaving the wheel, bounded up onto the dock, bow hawser in hand, and made the loop fast over the snubbing post. The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise Bill held up his hand, and the hawser slackened. The Tale of Timber Town Another hawser was brought up and firmly spliced to the one in use just beyond the bulwark forward. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson It was eight o'clock, and the sun was just setting, when the hawser attached to the tug was thrown off. A Chapter of Adventures A towing hawser was attached; their second pilot took charge of our truck, load and all; and before noon we were safely landed at the repair station. The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man Joe sent the bow hawser flying ashore, Tom doing the same with the stern line. The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise The swell and the weight of our hawsers acting on the necessarily short cables of the "Champlain" caused that vessel to drag and take the ground on our port quarter. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 This done, the first hawser was cut at the bulwark forward, and the ship swung round almost instantly. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson "Give her another five or six fathoms of chain," Ben said, himself attending to the veering out of the hawser. A Chapter of Adventures We were now alone—for the faithful black stood sentinel below by the hawser of his pirogue. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West As the last of the “thin line” came into their hands there came with it the 225 first of a stouter hawser, the two lines being knotted securely together. The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise In her attempts to extricate herself, our steel hawser got foul of her propeller and wound itself around it in such a confused mass, that the vessel's machinery became practically useless. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 “Now,” he shouted, “fasten a hawser to that boat; the largest you have.” By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson In a moment he steadied himself, and crept forward and cut the lashing of the hawser just as Tom severed that of the chain. A Chapter of Adventures At once the Sazanami took her prize in tow; but the craft was so seriously damaged that, despite all efforts to save her, she rapidly filled and sank, the towing hawser parting as she foundered. Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War “Stand by the stern-line to throw off, Hank,” called Captain Tom, as he raced out onto the dock and made a plunge for the bow hawser. The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise A turn of her propeller the other way caused the now useless hawser to fall off. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 This decided the pirates, and in a short time the end of a hawser was tied to one of the thwarts of the boat. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson As soon as the end of the hawser came on board it was fastened to the mast. A Chapter of Adventures The blade was keen, as a sailor’s knife should always be, and with a few vigorous slashes the hawser was severed and I was adrift. Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War “I should like to stay here a week,” said I, tripping over a steel hawser. Great Britain at War We lost no time in sending hawsers on board, but it was not until the third day that we were successful in our efforts to haul her off. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 The boat was then hauled back to L’Agile, and when the cable was got on board it was knotted to their own strongest hawser. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson The line by which it had been hauled in was unfastened and tied to that looped round the hawser, and payed out as those on the deck hauled on it. A Chapter of Adventures The hawser was as taut as a bowstring and the current so strong she pulled upon her anchor. Treasure Island As a last resort, Porter now ordered a hawser to be made fast to an anchor which was still left. Admiral Farragut By 9.30, however, decks were cleared of all but passengers, and at 10 precisely hawsers were cast off, and we steamed out of harbour. On the Equator A nine-inch hawser was sent to her, one end of the hawser being made fast to the Sachem. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy One-sixth to be deducted off wire rigging, wire ropes and wire hawsers, chain cables and chains, donkey engines, steam winches and connexions, steam cranes and connexions; other repairs in full. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Before our hawsers had fairly been made fast to the wharf at Makassar it became evident that among the natives our arrival had created a distinct sensation. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China The hawser, however, parted, and with it the last hope of escape. Admiral Farragut I’d try to fling a hawser about it somewhere, and haul it in and dry-dock it to find out what was wrong. Killykinick The tide had begun to rise by this time, and fortunately at the first strain on the hawser the Clifton floated, and was quickly drawn alongside of the Sachem. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Tie hawsers to her stern and pull her off!” Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure They found her to be in a sinking state: a hawser was made fast to her, with the intention of towing her into Hong Kong, then not fifty miles distant. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery Although the hawser was still intact, it no longer took any strain. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Grasping the hawser, he plunged into the sea and dragged himself toward the rock to which his father was fastened. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Nothing but the number and strength of the Hecla’s hawsers prevented her sharing the same fate, for the pressure was just as much as seven of these of six inches and two stream-cables would bear. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage It was seized, grappled by a turn of small hawsers, and made fast to the mizzen-mast. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure She was immediately hauled alongside, and twelve of her crew succeeded in getting on board of us; but the hawser gave way, and the junk drifted astern, with five men still remaining on board. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery Two slow but powerfully engined trawlers approached at a cable's length abreast, towing the bight of a massive steel hawser between. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Working rapidly, they made the hawser fast round an upright boulder. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Here we made fast in sixty-two fathoms of water, running our hawsers far in upon the ice, in case of its breaking off at the margin. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage Suddenly a terrific roar sounded above the rattle of ropes and creak of hawsers—and a broadside cut into the La Confidence with keen accuracy. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Finally, the day came to a close, and the captain ordered the hawser to be slipped and the kite hoisted in the stern crane of his vessel, the like being done by the other sweeper. Some Naval Yarns A couple of midshipmen were standing on the superstructure, watching with professional interest the splicing of a six-inch hawser. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War Working with Budge and Throppy, he took in the slack of the hawser, and soon the chair was dancing back to the yacht. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good The Hecla received no damage but the breaking of two or three hawsers, and a part of her bulwark torn away by the strain upon them. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage “On! on!” cried the Genoese seamen, and without further ado, twenty-two galleys careened forward, their white sails bellying in the wind, their hawsers groaning, spars creaking, and sailors chattering like magpies on a May morning. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Men were busy at the stern of the ships watching the wooden kites that are made so as to catch the mines by the hawser that is slung between the two steamers. Some Naval Yarns But the damage done by the collision was so great that it was deemed prudent to slack up the hawser and let the "Governor" drop astern again. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 Their strength doubled by the realization that life hung on their efforts, the boys swayed at the line until at last they grasped the end of the hawser. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good In doing this, it was next to impossible to avoid exposing the men to very great risk from the frequent breaking of the hawsers. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage The great hawsers that are used to pull the great ships, are made out of it. Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines The boat was soon berthed, and hawsers made fast. Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers Chain cables were coiled about all weak points, cord-wood was piled around the boilers, and the pilot-house was wrapped round and about with heavy hawsers. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 When it did, the older man sagged from the chair, motionless; the lad still clung to the hawser. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good In the meantime the strain put upon the Hecla’s hawsers being too great for them, they snapped one after another, p. 22and a bower-anchor was let go as a last resource. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage “But how do you make a leaf into a cord, a hawser, a sail, or a bag?” Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines With that the young motor boat captain leaped to the dock and ran to the stern hawser, while Hank Butts stood by the bow-hawser. Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers The "Smith" sent off a boat and made fast a hawser to the wreck, and took her in tow; but in a few minutes the hawser parted. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 One can hang a dog as well with a cord as with a hawser, and in proving my assertions I am quite willing that the insurance companies should believe each play is my best card. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated The port is small, the water deep, and the vessels made fast by hawsers to the shore. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II You weave the bales of fiber into bags, cloth, hawser ropes, canvas, tents, and cordage. Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines Tom Halstead and Hank Butts did not attempt to throw the hawsers over posts, but tossed their lines back to the deck as soon as the last soldier was ashore. Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers The "Sabine" came to anchor, and sent a hawser aboard the sinking "Governor." The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 The captain at once gave him leave to command the entire crew, and by means of hawsers tied to trees ashore and then strongly tightened, the vessel was floated. James B. Eads There were some live pigs with immense tusks, and some tasajo in the hold, and a raft of pipes of tallow which a hawser towed behind. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir In this operation the Spaniards had the hardest duty, being employed in their boats in carrying out hawsers, and even in heaving them in. Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I The last two cases had just been dumped on the deck, and two men leaped ashore, rushing for the shore-ends of the hawsers. Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers Then the hawser was gradually taken in until the two ships lay close together, stern to stern. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 A steel hawser attached to a windlass above the falls is used to tow the vessel up the watery incline, and were the cable to snap, a frightful disaster would certainly ensue. From Paris to New York by Land To bend two hawsers together; coupling links of a cable; coupling shackles. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The mainmast had been cut away, and was towed by a long hawser from the stern, thereby aiding to keep the vessel dead before the wind. With Cochrane the Dauntless The two deckhands having come aboard sulkily, the soldiers stood by the hawsers. Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers An anchor was let fall astern, and the whole ship's company hauled in on the hawser, swinging the ship slowly around. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 However, two got safe; by which means, with a line, we got a hawser on shore, and made fast to the rocks, upon which many ventured and arrived safe. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. The knight-heads or bollard timbers, where hawsers or heavy ropes are belayed. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Had it not been for the hawsers with which we had stayed the masts, everything must have gone out of her as we wore round, rolling in the trough of the sea. With Cochrane the Dauntless October 16, the Tamarisk lowered a boat in rough sea and sent grass line by means of which our eight-inch hawser was sent over to her. World's War Events, Vol. II The lighter was big and heavily laden, and every now and then her weight, putting a sudden strain on the hawser, jerked the launch to a standstill. Brandon of the Engineers The sheer intrepidity of the man on the line had ensured their reverence and loyalty, and the heavy hawser came inboard with a whiz. Gold Out of Celebes Also, the number of tiers in coiling cables and hawsers. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Haul on the hawser and bring her broadside to bear on them. With Cochrane the Dauntless "Well, we're off," said Locke, coming aft, as Jarrow went forward to oversee the getting of the anchor and the passing of the hawser. Isle o' Dreams He waved the lantern, but the lighter, with sea and current on her weather bow, forged almost straight ahead, and the straining hawser 150 dragged the launch back. Brandon of the Engineers Then out of the quiet came the sharp twang of a hawser, and the brigantine shivered. Gold Out of Celebes A hawser carried out to secure a vessel to a quay, mole, or anchor buried on shore. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. On deck he found Mackinder 237 caught in a bight of the hawser by which the other vessel had been towed. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub Soon they began to fill, and as Peth bawled to the tug, the hawser was dropped, and tooting a farewell, the little boat swung in a wide arc and headed back for Manila. Isle o' Dreams Though the screw thudded furiously, she seemed to gain no ground, and then the strain on the hawser suddenly slackened. Brandon of the Engineers Both men ran to the lines, Rolfe forward, Blunt aft, and now the mystery of those twanging hawsers was clear. Gold Out of Celebes Also, a hawser laid out to some fixed object to slue a vessel proceeding to sea. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Old Moosetooth grunted a command and the men ran to the hawsers holding the scows against the current. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland The anchors held well, but the hawsers gave way, and the Centurion was carried out to sea. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century The lighters would tow badly through the white, curling sea, and there was a risk of the hawsers breaking. Brandon of the Engineers The Barang gathered way, and the hawser sagged into the water as the strain was released. Gold Out of Celebes Lend assistance in hauling cables, hawsers, or large ropes along, and lifting some parts in a required direction. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. On the 30th the hawser was taken out of the propeller. Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy The Boatswain, with gloom in his countenance, was indicating a section where the strands were flattened and the hemp "heart" protruded in a manner indicating that all was not well with the six-inch wire hawser. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions “It’s strange that both parts broke, and, so far as I can make out, the tail barge has parted her hawser, too.” Brandon of the Engineers Out in midstream Bill Blunt and a boat's crew were returning after laying out an anchor to a great coir-fiber hawser, springy and stout, and a glance at the shores showed rapidly rising water. Gold Out of Celebes To anchor in a river with a hawser on shore to steady her. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The hawser was made fast to the tree for the purpose of drawing the stern of the Valley City around so as to bring her guns to bear on the enemy. Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy "Show it to the Officer of the Watch," he said, and turned again to the wire hawser. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions Four rowboats were engaged to tow the barge, and just as they started the hawser broke and the barge was adrift. The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys "Get a strain on the hawser and keep taking in," ordered Barry as soon as he got on deck. Gold Out of Celebes Strong upright posts fixed into the ground, for securing vessels to the landing-place by hawsers or chains. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Mr. O'Neill, acting master's mate, was very severely injured by a hawser to which the schooner was fastened in tow, slipping on a kevel. Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy Here the Commander came in view, conferring mysteriously with the Boatswain over a length of six-inch wire hawser that lay along the upper deck. A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions Two craggy rocks projecting to the main, The roaring winds' tempestuous rage restrain: Within, the waves in softer murmurs glide, And ships secure without their hawsers ride. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk The big Manila hawser lay coiled on the fore hatch, all ready to bend on when a small line was safely ashore. Gold Out of Celebes A service wrapped round a spar or hawser. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Well, I parted from Cynthia for the same reason that the hawser parts from the tug—I couldn't stand the tug. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea The hawser around the bitt interested him; and the glimpse he had of the sparkling river slipping toward him from the yellow hills up stream. The Adventures of Bobby Orde The ship was secured from drifting by a hawser being passed around her standing gear, and made fast to stout trees ashore. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan That agile young man saw his foe in time to avoid the rush by leaping over the straining hawser, knee-high, and the ugly jaws closed with a crash on the rope. Gold Out of Celebes A hawser carried out to some fixed object to keep a vessel steady in a tide-way, or in preparation for making sail from a fast. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It was twenty-four hundred feet long, and composed of thirty-two boats, or vessels, bound together by hawsers, cables, and beams. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim Joe slashed at the last strands of the tackles and yelled to Jack to let go the hawser. Blackbeard: Buccaneer November 24th.—After two hours fiddling about we managed to attach our fore and aft hawsers to the "Aquitania," and after breakfast we went on board our new home. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" The mate bent on the hawser, and men picked up great coils of it and flung them overboard. Gold Out of Celebes A hawser smaller than the lower cables, and used with the stream-anchor to moor the ship in a sheltered river or haven; it is now more generally a small chain. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. So, masters, we had nigh slipped hawser and away. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Then the lads tailed on to the breeching hawsers, which held the carriage from sliding on its iron rollers, and eased the strain as well as they could. Blackbeard: Buccaneer A newer piece of hawser was produced, and the skiff despatched once more on its laborious errand. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest I want you to lend me a hand here in cutting these hawsers: they are hard as iron chains.” The Tiger Hunter The heads of the timbers that rise above the decks, and are used for belaying hawsers, large ropes, &c. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The car, as will be seen by the foregoing drawings, is suspended from the hawser by means of short chains attached to the ends of it. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 That of the American Union depended for some hours on the soundness of the hawser by which the "Monitor" hung on to the tug-boat "Seth Low" of New York. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima The "skiff," as they whimsically termed the steamboat's great, clumsy tender—its official name of "sturgeon-head" was more descriptive—was brought alongside; and a half-mile of hawser, more or less, patiently coiled in the bottom. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest We then immediately hauled away on the hawser until we had got it stretched and secured to the anchor, which had been imbedded in the earth some way back from the cliff. A Yacht Voyage Round England Thus, when a vessel grounds by the bow or stern, and the hawsers are severely taut, the sally is practised. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. These chains terminate in rings above, which rings ride upon the hawser, thus allowing the car to traverse to and fro, from the vessel to the shore. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 We carried out a hawser to this buoy, and waited until the tide should ease and allow us to warp down to it. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Alas! she had no sooner raised her head than the hawser parted in the middle with a report like a small cannon, and she settled dejectedly back on the shoal. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest We knew from the length of the whip that we must haul out the hawser almost to its end. A Yacht Voyage Round England A hawser or rope something smaller than the bower, used to move or hold the ship temporarily during a calm in a river or haven, sheltered from the wind and sea, &c. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. In case of these life-cars, therefore, arrangements are made for sending the hawser out from the shore to the ship. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Presently we got to some tea-gardens, where a funny old man, with a yellow hat and a pigtail the size of a small hawser, accosted us. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant The scanty clothes are hanging out to dry on lines, while naked brats are splashing in the dirty water, clinging to the tightened hawser. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia This done, the “buoy with the breeches” was secured to a block, adjusted to the hawser, and was immediately hauled off. A Yacht Voyage Round England Stand fast, secure all, when a hawser has been sufficiently hauled. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It was caught by the crew on board and the hawser was hauled off. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Monday, July 1st, 1850.—At last the hoped-for signal, "take ships in tow," was made; and, with a leaping heart, we entered the lead, having the "Resolute" fast by the nose with a six-inch hawser. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Meanwhile some of the men had already pulled a big hawser ashore and made it fast. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 Each moment it seemed as if the hawser would be carried away. A Yacht Voyage Round England The mode of bending warps or hawsers together by taking a bowline in the end of one rope, and passing the end of the other through the bight, and making a bowline upon it. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The line is then drawn in, and a hawser being attached to the outer end of it, by the crew of the ship, the end of the hawser itself is then drawn to the shore. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 The "Resolute" fast astern, with a long scope of hawser, the "Pioneer," like a prize-fighter, settled to her work, and went in and won. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Three hands jumped into the boat, and the end of a hawser being heaved to them, they towed round the schooner’s head—the current caught it and helped them. The Three Midshipmen There were also a strong hawser and a whip or fine rope, by which the sling life-buoy was to be drawn backwards and forwards from the wreck to the shore. A Yacht Voyage Round England The best hemp grew at Bridport, in Dorsetshire; and there was a statute, that the cables and hawsers for the Royal Navy were to be made thereabouts. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. One of them returned and cast off the hawsers. Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi Ten minutes later the hawsers were cast off and we were steaming down the bay. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude The operation, however, was a slow one, and not without danger, as part of the hawser was completely at times submerged by the breakers. The Three Midshipmen |
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