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large heavy rope for nautical use

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So far so good, but it next occurred to my recollection that a taut hawser, suddenly cut, is a thing as dangerous as a kicking horse.

Just while I was meditating, a puff came, caught the HISPANIOLA, and forced her up into the current; and to my great joy, I felt the hawser slacken in my grasp, and the hand by which I held it dip for a second under water.

At last the breeze came; the schooner sidled and drew nearer in the dark; I felt the hawser slacken once more, and with a good, tough effort, cut the last fibres through.

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The wire hawser between her and the Diana, stretched as taut as a harpstring, vibrated alarmingly.

I fancied I could hear the steel hawser ping as it surged across the Diana's forecastle, with the hands on board of her bolting away from it in all directions.

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KARACHI -- Timely response of Karachi Port Trust (KPT) Tugs and Pilots averted a major disaster as the hawsers of various ships berthed at KPT got parted due to an impact of sudden high speed winds of 45-50 Knots.

Timely response by KPT averts major disaster

By this time, hawsers had been attached to the stern of the Thetis.

Shocking Thetis submarine tragedy saw 99 souls perish; SUNDAY PAST A look back at the pictures and memories that tell the story of our lives on Merseyside

The Lily had a narrow escape, as the hawsers connecting her with the sinking ship were cut with an axe just in time".

Story of Samuel Tongue, also killed on Leasowe Castle; LETTERS

ROPEY Lee Ivett, right, and a colleague used hawsers to build structure

THAT'S MONEY FOR OLD ROPE; ANGER OVER FUNDING FOR ART PROJECTS; Architect is accused of wasting taxpayers' money

Probably the safest way to dispose of old used tyres is for them all to be collected together, each district to have its own collection point, and then linked together with either stainless steel hawsers or ropes and then placed in the sea, at agreed locations, to form artificial reefs that could be designated as breeding areas for fish and therefore off limits to all fishing boats.

Best way to dispose of old tyres

The nearest river crossing is 15 kilometers (10 miles) away, Gholam Hossain and his seven sons decided a few years ago to offer these nomads a quicker way of getting to the other side by building a cableway using steel hawsers and pulleys.

Entrepreneur turns profit helping nomads cross chasm

I knew better than to even try to set it up without mooring hawsers and twin bollards.

A .300 Blackout pig-buster from ambush arms

It is a hazardous job handling steel hawsers from a small foy boat in all weathers, dwarfed by the huge vessel they are trying to secure.

Bottom knockers and foy boats - just life on the Tees

As for the bridge, a temporary one could be constructed on the old one, using 2 or 3 steel hawsers and an adequate light surface on top.

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