1. hawse - Noun
2. hawse - Adjective
3. hawse - Verb
4. hawse - Adverb
A hawse hole.
The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse.
That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
Source: Webster's dictionaryKlinger hangs out at the Hawse Hole, a sordid dive even by Tenderloin standards. Source: Internet
With council members Erica Young and Vicki Hawse absent from Wednesday’s meeting, Mayor John Clark was forced to. Source: Internet