hawser in a sentence
Examples
- The offender was allowed out as soon as he had, with his bare hands, unpicked the hawser.
- Barges tow as far as 1000 feet astern, their heavy 2-inch steel hawsers sometimes 15 feet underwater.
- After a day on the Coast Guard cutter Hawser, every member of the eight-person crew is sore.
- Mooring is often accomplished using thick ropes called " mooring lines " or " hawsers ".
- The " Grapple's " caprail is curved to fairlead and prevent chafing of the towing hawser.
- The " Safeguard's " caprail is curved to fairlead and prevent chafing of the towing hawser.
- At the tanker end of the hawser, a chafe chain is connected to prevent damage from the tanker fairlead.
- A load pin can be applied to the mooring uni-joint on the buoy deck to measure hawser loads.
- The " Grasp's " caprail is curved to fairlead and prevent chafing of the towing hawser.
- Loughman's lifeline and air hose became tangled in the hawser, preventing him from either ascending or descending.