The ship was aground and breaking up: he went out to sea on a piano: but we cut the hawser as he drifted under, and he got safe ashore.
Dodd bustled and had the hawser carefully payed out by two men, while he himself secured the other end in the mizen top: he had left that mast standing on purpose.
And now the man in charge of the hawser reported with joy that there was a strain on it.
But no light being shown any nearer on the coast, and the ship expected every minute to go to pieces, Dodd asked if any one would try to swim ashore with a line made fast to a hawser on board.
Thus for this purpose a mainsail is a piece of jute bagging, if you please, or ordinary canvas, and a hawser is a flexible rope.
I would reply, 'Suppose the mainsail was as soft as silk and the hawser as pliable, would you, as a sailor, throw them away on dead men?
Then he and his fireman tailed on to the end of it, bringing in the attached hawser hand over hand.
Float a hawser down to us; you are pitching too wild-eyed to come within heaving-line distance.
This time the hawser parted by grinding on the beach as they dragged her.
Once more they began at the beginning, and in time had another hawser ready, and tried again.
Then one of the front lines of haulers in turn had to move forward to an island, to swim for it with six hundred feet of hawser slapping the river as they dragged it.
Then the captain of the tug, in his peril, ordered the hawser cut, and thirty-nine men of the wrecking-crew were left to their fate on the abandoned wreck.
Working rapidly, they made the hawser fast round an upright boulder.
Something gave way on the yacht, and the hawser suddenly slackened, letting the boatswain's chair drag on the ledge.
We, however, will make a hawser fast to the rope you sent us by that noble creature Merlin, that in case we are mistaken about the brig holding together, we may have a better prospect of saving our lives.
It was very heavy work; but at length, by our united efforts, we got the hawser secured to a point of the rock.
On hearing this we again went to the end of the point, and found that we could haul in upon the rope; and by the resistance it made, it was evident that a hawser had been secured to it.
The launch receives the first hawser, picks up the anchor, and passes the capstan to drop it again in advance of the anchor previously placed, and carries the hawser back to the capstan, and so on.
The capstan is accompanied by a steam launch which carries the anchor andhawser forward in advance of the capstan.
A moment more and the supposed Maltese sailors, in their jackets and red fezzes, roused on the hawser and breasted the ketch along under the Philadelphia's quarter.
The officers, undismayed however, drew their swords and hacked at the hawser until it parted.
On meeting, Lawrence coolly took the fast from the Tripolitan boat, and soon had the hawser aboard of the ketch.
The hawserhad parted and we were drifting before wind and tide.
Hardly had Smith cast off the hawser and the crew of the Boxer gathered it aboard when the destroyer set off at full speed in order to intercept the drifting airship.
Just then the hawser parted like a piece of pack-thread, and the Diomeda was drifting helplessly under bare poles in the midst of the angry sea.
Nearer and nearer came the destroyer, with the Zeppelin straining and seesawing at the end of a hawser against the fairly stiff breeze.
It did not take long to get the six-inch hawser from the Boxer to the Diomeda, where the end was bent round the yacht's mainmast close to the deck and securely stopped to the gammoning-iron.
At sunset Smith placed the red and green navigation lights in position, satisfied himself that the hawser was not being chafed by the stemhead, and, having given the tiller into his companion's charge, went below to prepare supper.
The ropes that held the Diomeda to the quay were cast off, the destroyer's propellers began to churn twin columns of white foam, and the hawser slowly tautened.
As soon as the two craft were outside the Dollart the scope of the towing hawser was considerably increased.
Fastened to the hawserby a large loop was a sling of cordage, from which a long halyard trailed shoreward, while another connected it with the top.
Doubtless the crowd on the beach would know enough to make the hawser fast and pull on the halyard.
Would the hawser reach across this flux and reflux of death?
Meantime the people on shore had made fast the hawser to a tree and manned the halyard.
Get up a spare hawser and we'll rig a fresh stay round the head of the foremast, and then we'll set the foresail.
They did it to the satisfaction of the Torches, and at a call from Blair the Torch started slowly ahead, the hawser tightened, and every solid thrust of the blades in the blue water cut an upward step in the life of the Dark Islands.
Ere long the hawser was stretched straight and taut between the beach and the wreck--the shore end being raised several feet in the air by the erection of a wooden crotch--and the breeches-buoy was ready to be drawn to and fro upon it.
A turn of her propeller the other way caused the now useless hawser to fall off.
In her attempts to extricate herself, our steel hawser got foul of her propeller and wound itself around it in such a confused mass, that the vessel's machinery became practically useless.
The hawser was instantly cut, and we headed directly for the bar channel.
Then, shouting the order to make fast, the Gujarati flung a hawseracross to the grab.
As soon as Desmond stepped on board the grab, the hawser connecting the two vessels was cast off, the mainsail was run up, and the grab, sailing large, stood up the coast.
The hawserwas finally cast off, and, backing slowly out of the dock, the steamer was soon under full headway down the bay.
Then he got a little higher on the cliff, and when we saw he was looking out to us we made signs to him that a hawser was made fast to the line, an' all ready.
There seemed to be very few persons about, but a couple of white boys came to meet the boat when it reached the dock, and caught the hawser the engineer tossed to them.
While the men were engaged in bringing one end of the hawser to the after "towing-bitts," McIntosh took the helm and began to run to starboard in order to close with the disabled lighter.
At the same time, the towing-hawser which had up to now still attached us to the tug, was dropped over the bows as we got under weigh.
The little tug Arrow was right ahead; but she had eased her paddles and stopped towing us, preparatory to casting off her hawser and leaving the Silver Queen to her own devices.
Tender’s boat had much difficulty in getting her hawser reeved through the eye-bolt of the floating-buoy.
The gale continued to increase, and the vessel rolled and pitched in such a manner, that the hawser by which the Tender was made fast to the buoy snapped, and she went adrift.
Tender’s boat could not make fast her hawser to the moorings, and she was obliged to stand in for the Bay of Arbroath.
This kind of attachment was found to be more convenient, than the mode of passing the hawser through the ring of the buoy, when the vessel was to be made fast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hawser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
