through the hawsehole
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English
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (nautical, slang) Of an officer: having risen from the grade of an ordinary seaman, whose original position in the vessel was forward, before the mast.
Usage notes
[edit]- Used with various verbs ("come", "go", "crawl", "climb", "creep", etc.) and sometimes with "in" or "up" preceding "through".
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary