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Elbow in the hawse

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Is when a ship being moored, has gone round upon the shifting of the tides, twice the wrong way, so as to lay the cables one over the other: having gone once wrong, she makes a cross in the hawse, and going three times wrong, she males a round turn.
See also: H c , A.I.D. , IADC , Yaocho , PADAG

 

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