hawser

1. 1.

   large heavy rope for nautical use

   Broaderrope

Other forms of hawser

plural

hawsers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hawser

What does hawser mean?

hawser means "large heavy rope for nautical use".

How many syllables are in hawser?

hawser has 2 syllables: haw-ser. The stress falls on "haw".

Is hawser a common word?

hawser is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.