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Meaning:
Adjective:
- nautical A position relative to the course and position of a vessel, somewhat forward of the stem.
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Adverb:
- nautical Said of a vessel lying to two anchors, streamed from either bow.
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Noun:
- nautical A hawsehole or hawsepipe.
- nautical The horizontal distance or area between an anchored vessel's bows and the actual position of her anchor(s).
- nautical The part of the bow containing the hawseholes.
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