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halser

halser is the alternative form of hawser.

Meaning of hawser

Noun

hawser (plural hawsers)

  1. A thick or heavy-duty cable or rope used to tow or moor a ship.
    • Near-synonym: mooring line
    Synonyms:
    mooring line

Forms of halser

pluralhalsers

Questions about halser

What is halser the alternative form of?
Halser is the alternative form of hawser.

Words near halser in the dictionary

  1. halsen
  2. halsened
  3. halsenies
  4. halsening
  5. halseny
  6. halser
  7. halsers
  8. halses
  9. Halsey
  10. halsfang
  11. Halsham

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Adapted from Wiktionary: halser (page history and authors); hawser (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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