To lay it in fakes and tiers one over the other.
♦ To lay a cable. (See laying.)
♦ To pay cheap the cable, to hand it out apace; to throw it over.
♦ To pay out more cable, to let more out of the ship.
♦ To serve or plait the cable, to bind it about with ropes, canvas, &c.; to keep it from galling in the hawse-pipe. (See rounding, keckling, &c.)
♦ To splice a cable, to make two pieces fast together, by working the several yarns of the rope into each other; with chain it is done by means of shackles.
♦ To veer more cable, to let more out.