hawsehole

A minute later the anchor chain clattered through the hawsehole.

One length of cable ran swiftly and smoothly through the hawsehole.

A hawsehole, if you care, is the hole in the bow of a ship through which the anchor cable passes.

The silvery brush cut rapidly closed the distance to the midship hawsehole.

The men dis- appeared under the cover of the gunwale, only to reappear at the hawsehole.

The instant the shadowy blur appeared in the left of the hawsehole, Hawkins broke the trigger.

Two minutes later, dripping silt from the harbor bottom, the anchor rose out of the black water and was pulled tight against the hawsehole.

Lum-momu and Huri were already inside the other hawsehole and sliding down.

As he toppled through the hawsehole, the broad-head detonated.

A hawser passes through a hawsehole, also known as a cat hole, located on the hawse.

But the sort of people you find in The Rusty Hawsehole are like those fill-in-the-adjective games.

He got the briefest glimpse of the man's legs flying up as he slid past the hawsehole.

I left my change on the bar and exited The Rusty Hawsehole into the bright sunlight.

There must be some place in this world for me, but I didn't think The Rusty Hawsehole was going to make the short list.

It made a taut ladder of heavy links up to the hawsehole at the bow of the yacht.

All that would change soon: he would be hot and puffing by the time he reached the hawsehole after climbing the cable.

The anchor went down with a splash that wet the forecastle, and thecable smoked out through the hawsehole.

Within minutes the rats began to desert the ship, wriggling out throughthe hawsehole and every crack in the gun ports.

The vision vouchsafed was very dim, and she saw little Tolivar clinging to a chain, looking out of the wide-open hawsehole.

He resumed the scissor-cutting movement and worked his way up to the hawsehole, where he paused and listened.

In a few minutes more Kadiya reached the hawsehole on her side and found herself face-to-face with little Prince Tolivar.

Some of the places are rough, some rougher, and the roughest is a place called The Rusty Hawsehole.

He was relieving himself over the side through the hawsehole, a man-size opening in the gunwale that allowed access to a mooring cleat.

From the winch to a hawsehole in the aft bulkhead, a huge parceled and served cable ached its way back into the ship.

Aboli jumped over the corpse and, with a dozen long strides, reachedthe anchor cable stretched tautly through its hawsehole.