English to Afrikaans Meaning of hawser - tros

Hawser :

tros

noun

draai, koord, tou, kabel, tros

Hawser :: trosHawsers :: trossen

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Definitions of hawser in English

Noun(1) large heavy rope for nautical use

Examples of hawser in English

(1) The bow is impressive and very photogenic, with the exposed starboard anchor still housed and its hawser and mooring bollards easily distinguishable.(2) He managed to get a line and hawser ashore, across which some 40 men scrambled to safety.(3) We picked up the rope immediately: a hefty old hawser that leads you out from the shore for about 100m.(4) The captain and his crew abandoned ship in the boats and ran a hawser to anchor the Shuna's bow to the shore.(5) The anchor cable plunged into the water beside him, and he laid a hand on the thick hawser .(6) The docks were littered with greasy, untidily coiled hawsers , tools, cargo and refuse.(7) Fortunately, her dogs were tied to a tree by what appeared to be old tug hawsers .(8) Thicker hawsers followed, and it took no more than a few minutes to wrap them around the mooring bollards.(9) The bow is equally imposing, with two extremely large anchors still in their hawsers and a great deal of machinery and portholes to see.(10) Many of the ship's 625 passengers peered at the spectacle below, as the ship was moored along the pier and held by thick hawsers .(11) It is held up with steel hawsers against the storms.

Related Phrases of hawser

Related Phrases of hawser

Synonyms

1. twist ::

draai

2. cord ::

koord

3. rope ::

tou

4. cable ::

kabel

5. braid ::

braid

6. hawser ::

tros

Different Forms

hawser, hawsers

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