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With a rush and a roar the stout hempen cable ran through the hawsepipe, the vessel snubbed, swung round, and the next moment the cable parted as if made of pack thread.

The fo'lk'sle, too, from the fact of the cable running through it, was like a neglected sewer, the blocks of foul-smelling mud dropping continually from the links as they came in through the hawsepipes.

His progression up the ranks is known in the trade as “coming up through the hawsepipe,” an allusion to the opening that a ship’s anchor chain passes through.

The No. 5 heaved anchor, the chain clanking and chattering in a hawsepipe.

With a hammer he knocked out the stopper; the starboard anchor dropped and the red rust flew from her hawsepipe as the anchor chain screamed through it.