Hawser vs. Cable — What's the Difference?

Hawser is a nautical term for a thick cable or rope used in mooring or towing a ship. A hawser passes through a hawsehole, also known as a cat hole, located on the hawse.

A strong, large-diameter, heavy steel or fiber rope.

A cable or rope used in mooring or towing a ship.

Something that resembles such steel or fiber rope.

(nautical) A cable or heavy rope used to tow or moor a ship.

(Electricity) A bound or sheathed group of mutually insulated conductors.

A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.

A sheathed bundle of optical fibers.

Large heavy rope for nautical use

A heavy rope or chain for mooring or anchoring a ship.

A cable length.

Cable television.

A similar service providing internet access.

A cablegram.

Of or relating to a subscription television or internet service that uses cables to carry signals between local distribution antennas and the subscriber's location.

To send a cablegram to.

To transmit (a message) by telegraph.

To supply or fasten with a cable or cables.

To send a cablegram.

(material) A long object used to make a physical connection.

A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.

An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.

An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.

(nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.

(communications) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.

(TV) cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.

A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.

(nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.

100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.

(finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.

(architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.

(knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.

(transitive) To provide with cable(s)

(transitive) To fasten (as if) with cable(s)

(transitive) To wrap wires to form a cable

(transitive) To send a telegram, news, etc., by cable

(intransitive) To communicate by cable

To ornament with cabling.

(knitting) To create cable stitches.

A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.

A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.

A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; - called also cable molding.

To fasten with a cable.

To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.

To telegraph by a submarine cable

A telegram sent abroad

A conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power

A very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire

A nautical unit of depth

Television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver

A television system transmitted over cables

Send cables, wires, or telegrams

Fasten with a cable;