wer part of the beak-head and otherwise by the top of the bow.
Also, timbers through which the hawse-holes are cut.

HAWSE-PIPE. A cast-iron pipe in the hawse-holes to prevent the cable
from cutting the wood.

HAWSE-PLUGS. Blocks of wood made to fit into the hawse-pipes, and put in
from the outside to stop the hawses, and thereby prevent the water from
washing into the manger. The plug, coated with old canvas, is first
inserted, then a mat or swab, and over it the buckler or shield, which
bolts upward and downward into the breast-hooks.

HAWSER. A large rope or cablet, which holds the middle degree between
the cable and tow-line, being a size smaller than the former, and as
much larger than the latter; curiously, it is not hawser but cable laid.

HAWSER-LAID ROPE. Is rope made in the usual way, being three or four
strands of yarns laid up right-handed, or with the sun; it is used for
small running rigging, as well as for standing rigging, shrouds, &c.; in
the latter case it is generally tarred to keep out rain. It is supposed
that this style of rope is stronger in proportion to the number of yarns
than cable or water-laid rope, which is more tightly twisted, each
strand being a small rope. This latter is more impervious to water, and
therefore good for cables, hawsers, &c.; it is laid left-handed, or
against the sun.

HAWSE-TIMBERS. The upright timbers in the bow, bolted on each side of
the stem, in which the hawse-holes are cut.

HAWSE-WOOD. A general name for the hawse-timbers.

HAY. A straight rank of men drawn up exactly in a line.

HAYE. A peculiar ground-shark on the coast of Guinea.

HAYLER. An archaism for halliard.

HAZE. A grayish vapour, less dense than a fog, and therefore does not
generally exclude objects from sight.

HAZE, TO. To punish a man by making him do unnecessary work.

HEAD. The upper part or end of anything, as a mast-head, a timber-head.
Also, an ornamental figure on a ship's stem expressive of her name, or
emblematical of her object, &c. (_See_ BILLET-HEAD, BUST-HEAD,
FAMILY-HEAD, FIDDLE-HEAD, FIGURE-HEAD, SCROLL-HEAD, &c.) Also, in a more
enlarged sense, the whole fore-part of a ship, including the bows on
each side; the head therefore opens the column of water through which
the ship passes when advancing; hence we say, _head-way_, _head-sails_,
_head-sea_, &c. It is evident that the fore-part of a ship is called its
head, from its analogy to that of a fish, or any animal while s