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hawser🔊

(nautical) A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship.

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The hawser was as taut as a bowstring, and the current so strong she pulled upon her anchor. All around the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled and chattered like a little mountain stream.
A hatchet to my hawser? all adrift to go?