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What does hawser mean?

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Noun
  1. (nautical) a cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship
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To get her off, the launch was hoisted out, and the kedge anchor with a hawser, was put into her.
The hawser had but just been loosened from the bitt when the drag of the waters began.
We sent boats with ropes and hawsers to the rocks, wound a rope round a rock, made a hawser fast to the rope, and swung to it with a length of hawser.
The steeply sloping reef was covered in a jumble of steel hawser, deck plates, twisted girder and hand-rail.
On the CCGS Sir William Alexander, the towing hawser was led through the aft centerline fairlead and secured around the towing bollard.
The monkey bridge is constructed using two sheer legs and bridged with a hawser and handrails secured using pickets.

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