<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the part of a bow where the hawseholes are located.</li><li>a hawsehole or hawsepipe.</li><li>the distance or space between the bow of an anchored vessel and the point on the surface of the water above the anchor.</li><li>the relative position or arrangement of the port and starboard anchor cables when both are used to moor a vessel.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) hawsed, hawsing: (of a vessel) to pitch heavily at anchor.</li></ul>