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hawsing

hawsing is the present participle and gerund of hawse.

Meaning of hawse

Verb

hawse (third-person singular simple present hawses, present participle hawsing, simple past and past participle hawsed)

  1. (intransitive) To lie uneasily to an anchor, typically due to a weather tide.

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Questions about hawsing

What is hawsing the present participle and gerund of?
Hawsing is the present participle and gerund of hawse.

Words near hawsing in the dictionary

  1. hawser-laid
  2. hawser-laid rope
  3. hawser-laid ropes
  4. hawsers
  5. hawses
  6. hawsing
  7. Hawsker
  8. Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre
  9. Hawsmith
  10. hawsom
  11. hawsoms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hawsing (page history and authors); hawse (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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