• noun:   (anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.
• verb:   (dialectal) To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.
• verb:   (transitive) To greet; salute; hail.
• verb:   (transitive) To beseech; adjure.
• verb:   (obsolete) To haul; to hoist.
• noun:   Alternative form of hawse [(nautical) The part of the bow containing the hawseholes.]

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