It is important to release the hawser as the ship leaves the pier. From LearnThat.org.
The hawser is a thick rope, or cable, to which the lifebuoy is suspended when in action. From Wordnik.com. [Battles with the Sea] Reference
A hawser is the thing you tie around a bollard. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
It was caught by the crew on board and the hawser was hauled off. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The captain shouted "Bob, Bob, get ashore and cast off the hawser.". From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Working rapidly, they made the hawser fast round an upright boulder. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
It was seized, a hawser made fast, and we dragged the great rope on board. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
A turn of her propeller the other way caused the now useless hawser to fall off. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Then out of the quiet came the sharp twang of a hawser, and the brigantine shivered. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
A nine-inch hawser was sent to her, one end of the hawser being made fast to the Sachem. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
When the steamboat bumped into the dock Marty was right at hand to catch the bow hawser. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
Zeke obeyed readily enough, hauled in the hawser, and made the loop fast over the piling. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Two waiting sailors threw off the hawser in response to a shouted signal from the bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
The hawser was as taut as a bowstring, and the current so strong she pulled upon her anchor. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
On the other hand a sudden strain on the hawser would produce no effect whatever on the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
When it did, the older man sagged from the chair, motionless; the lad still clung to the hawser. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
By means of this hawser the lifeboatmen hauled their craft under our quarter, clear of the raffle. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
The big Manila hawser lay coiled on the fore hatch, all ready to bend on when a small line was safely ashore. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
He spoke, and snatching his sword like lightning from the sheath, strikes at the hawser with the drawn steel. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Bob now saw the long-waited-for opportunity and with alacrity sprang to the wharf, but not to release the hawser. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Grasping the hawser, he plunged into the sea and dragged himself toward the rock to which his father was fastened. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
In case of these life-cars, therefore, arrangements are made for sending the hawser out from the shore to the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Something gave way on the yacht, and the hawser suddenly slackened, letting the boatswain's chair drag on the ledge. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Working with Budge and Throppy, he took in the slack of the hawser, and soon the chair was dancing back to the yacht. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The let-downs had been hard ones, with a couple of men on board to fend off and two or three on the hawser holding back. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
He passed a hawser around the narrow part of the whale just forward of the tail and then ordered the men to pull for the schooner. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
The sheer intrepidity of the man on the line had ensured their reverence and loyalty, and the heavy hawser came inboard with a whiz. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
So far so good; but it next occurred to my recollection that a taut hawser, suddenly cut, is a thing as dangerous as a kicking horse. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The word hawser has nothing whatever to do with the verb to hoist; neither does the ` N.E.D. 'say that it has. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1] Reference
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