The Hawses.
Are those great-round-holes, before, under the head, out of which the Cabels doe come, when the Ship is at an Anchor: A bold Hawse; Is when they lie high from the water, and this is best, for when they lie low, if there be great sea, the Hawse will still be in the water, and take in much water into the Ship: Fresh the Hawse, that is when we suspect that the Cabell is fretted or chafed, or is like, as many times it will, to burne in the Hawse (for there the Cabell en∣dures the greatest stresse) then we veere out a little, to let an other part of the Cabell indure the stresse: Also, when we lay new Platts upon the Cabell; In the Hawfe, it is called freshing the Hawse: Cleere the Hawse, that is, when two Cabels, which come out at two Hawses, and by the winding of the Ship, have some turnes one about the other, then undoing these turnes, is cleering the Hawse; which is necessary to be done, for else the Cabels will gall one another very much: Any ship, or thing that is crosse afore the Hawse, or lyes athwart the Hawse; or when one Ship rides with her sterne just afore the others Hawse, they say, she rides upon the Hawse.