These are the meanings of the letters EGGWASH when you unscramble them.
- gages (unknown)
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- Hawse (n.)
A hawse hole.
- Hawse (n.)
That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
- Hawse (n.)
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.
- Hawse (n.)
The situation of the cables when a vessel is moored with two anchors, one on the starboard, the other on the port bow.
- Swage (n.)
A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge.
- Swage (v. t.)
To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.
- Swage (v. t. & i.)
See Assuage.
- Wages (n.)
A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2.