Usually means: Opening for anchor chain passage.
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  1. hawsehole: Merriam-Webster
  2. hawsehole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hawsehole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hawsehole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hawsehole: Vocabulary.com
  6. hawsehole: Wordnik
  7. Hawsehole, Hawsehole, Hawsehole, Hawsehole: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. hawsehole: Wiktionary
  9. hawsehole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hawsehole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hawsehole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hawsehole: Dictionary.com
  13. Hawsehole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. hawsehole: Rhymezone
  15. hawsehole: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  16. hawsehole: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hawsehole: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. hawsehole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. hawsehole: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hawsehole)

noun:  (nautical) The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed.
noun:  (nautical) A hole in a ship through which a hawser is passed.

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