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What does hawsehole mean?

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Noun
  1. (nautical) The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed.
  2. (nautical) A hole in a ship through which a hawser is passed.
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A glaring omission, though, is the lack of a hawsepipe or hawsehole.
Women's figures, buxom and of proud bearing, stand amid flowers that circled the hawsehole of the ship.
Apart from the anchor locker's lack of a hawsehole and the too-low railings, we couldn't find much to quibble about.
We found the cable cut about two fathoms from the hawsehole.
From her pedestal descend branches of gold, which also encircle the hawsehole.
Nick is determined to reinstall the last few gleaming hawsehole surrounds.

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