hawse-piecen.
Nautical.
One of the timbers of a ship through which a hawse-hole is cut; one of the timbers which compose the bow of a vessel and whose sides look fore and aft.
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1680 London Gaz. No. 1526/4 The Adventure Pink, Dogger built..new Hawse pieces.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Ecubiers, the hawse-pieces, through which those holes are cut.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 123 Hawse-pieces, the timbers which form the bow of the ship, whose sides stand fore and aft, or nearly so; that is, parallel to the middle line of the ship.
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