chain-cable shackles

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• shackles

  Semicircular clumps of iron sliding upon a round bar, in which the legs of prisoners are occasionall...

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• chain-cable compressor

  A curved arm of iron which revolves on a bolt through an eye at one end, at the other is a larger ey...

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• chain-cable controller

  A contrivance for the prevention of one part of the chain riding on another while heaving in. ...

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• Cable

  ·vt To fasten with a cable. II. Cable ·vt & ·vi To telegraph by a submarine cable. III. Cable ·vt ...

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• cable

  A thick, strong rope or chain which serves to keep a ship at anchor; the rope is cable-laid, 10 inch...

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• Chain

  ·noun The warp threads of a web. II. Chain ·vt To measure with the chain. III. Chain ·vt To unite ...

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• Chain

  1) A part of the insignia of office. A chain of gold was placed about Joseph's neck (Gen. 41:42); an...

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• chain

  When mountains, hills, lakes, and islands are linked together, or follow each other in succession, s...

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• Chain

  Chains were used, • As badges of office; • For ornament; • For confining prisoners. • the gold c...

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• testing a chain-cable

  Trying its strength by the hydraulic machine, which strains it beyond what it is likely to undergo w...

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• port-shackles

  The rings to the ports. ...

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• cable-sheet, sheet-cable

  The spare bower cable belonging to a ship. Sheet is deemed stand-by, and is also applied to its anch...

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• cable-stream, stream-cable

  A hawser or rope something smaller than the bower, used to move or hold the ship temporarily during ...

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• Sheet cable

  ·- The cable belonging to the sheet anchor. ...

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• cable-bends

  Two small ropes for lashing the end of a hempen cable to its own part, in order to secure the clinch...

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• cable-bitted

  So bitted as to enable the cable to be nipped or rendered with ease. ...

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• cable-bitts

  See bitts. ...

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• cable-buoys

  Peculiar casks employed to buoy up rope cables in a rocky anchorage, to prevent their rubbing agains...

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• cable-enough

  The call when cable enough is veered to permit of the anchor being brought to the cat-head. ...

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• cable-hanger

  A term applied to any person catching oysters in the river Medway, not free of the fishery, and who ...

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• cable-stage

  A place constructed in the hold, or cable-tier, for coiling cables and hawsers on. ...

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• cable-tier

  The place in a hold, or between decks, where the cables are coiled away. ...

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• sheet-cable

  A hempen cable used when riding in deep water, where the weight of a chain cable would oppress a shi...

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• stream-cable

  A hawser smaller than the lower cables, and used with the stream-anchor to moor the ship in a shelte...

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• Block chain

  ·add. ·- A chain in which the alternate links are broad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted ...

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• Brequet chain

  ·- A watch-guard. ...

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• Chain pump

  ·- A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dip...

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• Chain stitch

  ·- An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; — used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery. I...

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• Chain tie

  ·add. ·- A tie consisting of a series of connected iron bars or rods. ...

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• Chain wheel

  ·- A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel. II. Chain wheel ·- An inversion of the chain pump, by which i...

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• Crotch chain

  ·add. ·- A form of tackle for loading a log sideways on a sled, skidway, ·etc. ...

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• Gunter's chain

  ·- The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. ·see <<Chain>>, ·noun, 4, and Gunter's scale. ...

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• Safety chain

  ·add. ·- A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in ...

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• Sheet chain

  ·- A chain sheet cable. ...

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• Top-chain

  ·noun A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the rope...

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• Paul's Chain

  North out of Carter Lane to St. Paul's Churchyard. In Castle Baynard Ward (O.S.1880). First mention...

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• golden-chain

  n. another name for the Laburnum (q.v.). ...

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• chain-bolt

  A large bolt to secure the chains of the dead-eyes through the toe-link, for the purpose of securing...

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• chain-cables

  Are not new; Cæsar found them on the shores of the British Channel. In 1818 I saw upwards of eighty ...

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• chain-hook

  An iron rod with a handling-eye at one end, and a hook at the other, for hauling the chain-cables ab...

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• chain-pipe

  An aperture through which a chain-cable passes from the chain-well to the deck above. ...

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• chain-plates

  Plates of iron with their lower ends bolted to the ship's sides under the channels, and to these pla...

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• chain-pump

  This is composed of two long metal tubes let down through the decks somewhat apart from each other, ...

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• chain-shot

  Two balls connected either by a bar or chain, for cutting and destroying the spars and rigging of an...

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• chain-slings

  Chains attached to the sling-hoop and mast-head, by which a lower yard is hung. Used for boat or any...

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• chain-stopper

  There are various kinds of stoppers for chain-cables, mostly acting by clamping or compression. ...

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• chain, top

  A chain to sling the lower yards in time of battle, to prevent them from falling down when the ropes...

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• chain-well

  , or locker A receptacle below deck for containing the chain-cable, which is passed thither throug...

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• top-chain

  A chain to sling the yards in time of battle, in case of the ropes by which they are hung being shot...

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• Cable, George Washington

  (b. 1844) American novelist. Old Creole Days (1879), The Grandissimes (1880), Madame Delphine (1881...

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• bending the cable

  The operation of clinching, or tying the cable to the ring of its anchor. The term is still used for...

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• cable-laid rope

  Is a rope of which each strand is a hawser-laid rope. Hawser-laid ropes are simple three-strand rope...

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• range of cable

  A sufficient quantity of cable left slack to allow the anchor to reach the ground before the cable i...

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• veering cable, the

  That cable which is veered out in unmooring, and not unspliced or unshackled in clearing hawse. ...

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• Side-chain theory

  ·add. ·- A theory proposed by Ehrlich as a chemical explanation of immunity phenomena. In brief outl...

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• short-linked chain

  A cable without studs, and therefore with shorter links than those of stud-chains; such are slings a...

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• bitt the cable, to

  To put it round the bitts, in order to fasten it, or slacken it out gradually, which last is called ...

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• cable, to coil a

  To lay it in fakes and tiers one over the other. ♦ To lay a cable. (See laying.) ♦ To pay cheap ...

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• cut the cable, to

  A manœuvre sometimes necessary for making a ship cast the right way, or when the anchor cannot be we...

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• stopper of the cable

  Commonly called a deck-stopper. A piece of rope having a large knot at one end, and hooked or lashed...

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• midshipman's watch and chain

  A sheep's heart and pluck. ...

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• watch, chain, and seals

  A sheep's head And pluck. ...

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• stand clear of the cable!

  A precautionary order when about to let go the anchor, that nothing may obstruct it in running out o...

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• veer away the cable, to

  To slack and let it run out. ...

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• Chain Alley, Cooper's Row, Aldgate

  See Gould Square. ...

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• moor a cable each way, to

  Is dropping one anchor, veering out two cables' lengths, and letting go another anchor from the oppo...

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• fore-ganger of the chain bower cables

  Is a length of 15 fathoms of stouter chain, in consequence of greater wear and tear near the anchor,...

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• moor with a spring on the cable, to

  See spring. ...

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