Halse vs Hawse - What's the difference?
halse | hawse |
(label) To fall upon the neck of; embrace.
*:
To greet; salute; hail.
To beseech; adjure.
(obsolete) To haul; to hoist.
(nautical) The part of the bow containing the hawseholes.
(nautical) A hawsehole or hawsepipe.
(nautical) The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s).
(nautical) A position relative to the course and position of a vessel, somewhat forward of the stem.
(nautical) Said of a vessel lying to two anchors, streamed from either bow.
As nouns the difference between halse and hawse
is that halse is while hawse is (nautical) the part of the bow containing the hawseholes.As an adjective hawse is
(nautical) a position relative to the course and position of a vessel, somewhat forward of the stem.As an adverb hawse is
(nautical) said of a vessel lying to two anchors, streamed from either bow.halse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hals, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) halsen, halchen, from (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
(hals)- soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eyther halsed other in armes
