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Ordinarily, ships are secured to piers via thick ropes known as mooring lines or hawsers.
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 20 Nov. 2024
Striped strings broke up the theatre’s aerial volume, inspired, Foreman once said, by the tension hawsers and trapeze rigging in a circus tent.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
Spaghetti-thin shoelaces, sturdy hawsers, silk cravats — all are routinely tied in knots.
—Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2013
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Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 20 Nov. 2024
Striped strings broke up the theatre’s aerial volume, inspired, Foreman once said, by the tension hawsers and trapeze rigging in a circus tent.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2024
Spaghetti-thin shoelaces, sturdy hawsers, silk cravats — all are routinely tied in knots.
—Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2013
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“Hawser.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hawser. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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hawser
noun
haw·ser
ˈhȯ-zər 
: a large rope for towing or tying up a ship
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