Read full poem →With hawsers strong and taut,
The weaker lashed to port,
Dictionary Entry
A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship
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. hawsershawsers wirehawsers steelhawsers two
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Poetry examples for “hawsers”
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Read full poem →How slowly they move, little by little trying
the hawsers that drop and groan with their agony.
Yes, it is certainly of the high sea they are talking.