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A hawser is a very thick rope, or a steel cable, used on a ship. Sailors use it to tie the ship to the dock, to pull another ship, or to hold the anchor. It is a sea word. You would not call a thin rope at home a hawser. Though actually, the old ones were rope; many now are wire, but people still say hawser for that heavy line. It is not the same word as hawse (the hole in the front of a ship where the cable runs through), though English mixed the two up long ago, which is why hawser looks the way it does.
（船上用的）大纜、纜繩
組成From Middle English hauser, from Anglo-Norman haucer, from a Latin-family verb meaning “to raise,” from Latin altus “high.” English later mixed it up with hawse, and perhaps with haul, so the spelling changed.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hawsernoun/hɔːzə/
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nauticaltransportA thick or heavy-duty cable or rope used to tow or moor a ship.
- Near-synonym: mooring line
- The hawser was as taut as a bowstring, and the current so strong she pulled upon her anchor. All around the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled and chattered like a little mountain stream.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。