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Answer for the clue "Bow area ", 5 letters:
hawse
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Word definitions for hawse in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hawse \Hawse\ (h[add]z or h[add]s; 277), n. [Orig. a hawse hole, or hole in the bow of the ship; cf. Icel. hals, h[=a]ls, neck, part of the bows of a ship, AS. heals neck. See Collar , and cf. Halse to embrace.] A hawse hole. --Harris. (Naut.) The situation ...
Usage examples of hawse.
Say de bridge washed uhway wid yuh and de hawse on it, and you got hit by de timber.
Ah done told yuh time and time uhgin dat ignorance is de hawse dat wisdom rides.
Jackson and Stafford stood by at the rolling hitch, the knot making a bulky lump in the anchor cable which, in the bomb ketch, went over the bow through a fairlead in the bulwark, not through a hawse hole, so that if they were not careful the knot would jam.
Clapping our helm a-weather, and hauling our fore sheets to windward, we fell off athwart his hawse, and raked him with several broadsides fore and aft.
He pulled himself up until he was even with the hawse pipe and hung there for a full minute.
The hawse pipe was a good ten feet below the top edge of the bow gunnels.
She peeped through the hawse pipe, saw only dim grey-black deck and spattering rain.
When each wave broke more water was forced in through the hawse pipe.
A brass hawse pipe liner, some loops of anchor chain, a lathe-turned rail studded with iron spikes.
They wandered in various parts of the ship, sometimes leaning on the depth-charge racks on the fantail, or stretching out on the deck by the bow, watching the flying fish leap in front of the rising and falling bow and listening to the Caribbean race by through the hawse pipes.
The French commander was obviously determined that there should be no repetition of the Nile: he had made sure that no enemy could double upon him, taking him between two fires, and he had also taken- up such a position in his little bay that it would be impossible to lie athwart his hawse and rake him, since his bows were protected by the solid masonry.
The leader could then lie athwart our hawse and be able to rake us as he passes, and we’.
After this, of course, every officer went, with the exception of the master, who said that he'd as soon have two round turns in his hawse as go to see people kick their legs about like fools, and that he'd take care of the ship.
He woan say nuthin’ ‘bout de fune’l, an’ in de mawnin’ he lock de do’ an’ git on his hawse an’ go off ter town.