English Explanatory Dictionary

through the hawsehole

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep_phrase
  1. Of an officer: having risen from the grade of an ordinary seaman, whose original position in the vessel was forward, before the mast.

Word forms

through the hawsehole

Related words

rise through the ranks
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