TTWa thick rope or steel cable used on a ship 〔船上用的〕缆绳;钢缆
Examples from the Corpus
hawser• Above, below and around them, girders and hawsers criss-crossed an apparently boundless gulf.• Finally one end of the hawser was fastened to the bank, and the makeshift life raft was dispatched.
Originhawser
(1200-1300)Anglo-Frenchhauceour, from Old Frenchhaucier“to lift”, from Latinaltus“high”