"hawser" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hawser.wav [Southern-England] Forms: hawsers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔːzə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English hauser, haucer, from Anglo-Norman haucer, from Vulgar Latin *altiāre (“to raise”), derived from Latin altus (“high”). Altered in English by mistaken association with hawse and perhaps haul. Compare French aussière, haussière. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|hauser}} Middle English hauser, {{m|enm|haucer}} haucer, {{der|en|xno|haucier|haucer}} Anglo-Norman haucer, {{der|en|VL.|*altiāre|t=to raise}} Vulgar Latin *altiāre (“to raise”), {{der|en|la|altus|t=high}} Latin altus (“high”), {{m|en|hawse}} hawse, {{m|en|haul}} haul, {{cog|fr|aussière}} French aussière, {{m|fr|haussière}} haussière Head templates: {{en-noun}} hawser (plural hawsers)
  1. (nautical) A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship. Categories (topical): Nautical Derived forms: hawser iron, hawser-laid, hawser-laid rope Translations (cable): швартоў (švartóŭ) [masculine] (Belarusian), перлінь (pjerlinʹ) [masculine] (Belarusian), (uvazovací, kotevní) lano [neuter] (Czech), trosse [common-gender] (Danish), tros [masculine] (Dutch), touvi (Finnish), trossi (Finnish), aussière [feminine] (French), guindareza [feminine] (Galician), Trosse [feminine] (German), Tau [neuter] (German), amaro (Ido), canapo [masculine] (Italian), cima [feminine] (Italian), torotoro (Maori), taura (Maori), torokaha (Maori), hawa (Maori), aussiéthe [feminine] (Norman), trosse [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), trosse [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), خلاط (halat) (Ottoman Turkish), cuma [feminine] (Polish), amarra [feminine] (Portuguese), parâmă (Romanian), перли́нь (perlínʹ) [masculine] (Russian), трос (tros) [masculine] (Russian), шварто́в (švartóv) [masculine] (Russian), cabo [masculine] (Spanish), tross [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-hawser-en-noun-M4xViJIq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: nautical, transport

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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.