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 Plug n.
 1. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
 2. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. [U. S.]
 3. A high, tapering silk hat. [Slang, U.S.]
 4. A worthless horse. [Slang, U.S.]
 5. Building A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
 Breech plug Gun., in breech-loading guns, the metal plug or cylinder which closes the aperture in the breech, through which the gun is loaded.
 Fire plug, a street hydrant to which hose may be attached. [U. S.]
 Hawse plug Naut., a plug to stop a hawse hole.
 Plug and feather. Stone Working See Feather, n., 7.
 Plug centerbit, a centerbit ending in a small cylinder instead of a point, so as to follow and enlarge a hole previously made, or to form a counterbore around it.
 Plug rod Steam Eng. , a rod attached to the beam for working the valves, as in the Cornish engine.
 Plug valve Mech., a tapering valve, which turns in a case like the plug of a faucet.

 Hawse n.
 1. A hawse hole.
 2. Naut. (a) The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow. (b) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse. (c) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
 Athwart hawse. See under Athwart.
 Foul hawse, a hawse in which the cables cross each other, or are twisted together.
 Hawse block, a block used to stop up a hawse hole at sea; -- called also hawse plug.
 Hawse piece, one of the foremost timbers of a ship, through which the hawse hole is cut.
 Hawse plug. Same as Hawse block (above).
 To come in at the hawse holes, to enter the naval service at the lowest grade. [Cant]
 To freshen the hawse, to veer out a little more cable and bring the chafe and strain on another part.
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