Associations to the word «Hawsehole»

Wiktionary

HAWSEHOLE, noun. (nautical) The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed.

Dictionary definition

HAWSEHOLE, noun. The hole that an anchor rope passes through.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne