A Hawser.
Is a three-strand roape, and may be called a little Ca∣bell, for that which is one Ships Hawser, will be an other Ships Cabell:
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Is a three-strand roape, and may be called a little Ca∣bell, for that which is one Ships Hawser, will be an other Ships Cabell:
These doe serve for many uses, as to warp the Ship over a bar: the maine and fore-shrowdes, are made of Hawsers; only note the difference of the making or laying, is the cause of the difference of the names, which to know, Vide Roapes.