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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hawse /hɔːz/

▶noun the part of a ship's bows through which the anchor cables pass.

■ the space between the head of an anchored vessel and the anchors.

– origin ME halse, prob. from ON háls ‘neck, ship's bow’.

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