n. - The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two
anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
n. - 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.
n. - That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for
the cables.