sheet-cable

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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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• Sheet cable

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

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• Sheet

  ·vt the book itself. II. Sheet ·vt To expand, as a sheet. III. Sheet ·vt A <<Sail>>. IV. Sheet ·v...

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• sheet

  A rope or chain fastened to one or both the lower corners of a sail, to extend and retain the clue d...

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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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• 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 anchor

  ·vt Anything regarded as a sure support or dependence in danger; the best hope or refuge. II. Sheet...

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• Sheet chain

  ·- A chain sheet cable. ...

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• deck-sheet

  That sheet of a studding-sail which leads directly to the deck, by which it is steadied until set; i...

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• flowing-sheet

  In sailing free or large, is the position of the sheets or lower clues of the principal sails when t...

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• sheet-anchor

  One of four bower anchors supplied, two at the bows, and one at either chest-tree abaft the fore-rig...

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• sheet-bend

  A sort of double hitch, made by passing the end of one rope through the bight of another, round both...

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• sheet-copper

  Copper rolled out into sheets, for the sheathing of ships' bottoms, &c. ...

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• sheet-fish

  The Silurus glanis, a large fish found in many European rivers and lakes. ...

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• sheet home!

  The order, after the sails are loosed, to extend the sheets to the outer extremities of the yards, t...

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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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• 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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• fore-sheet horse

  An iron bar fastened at its ends athwart the deck before the mast of a sloop, for the foresail-sheet...

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• fore-sheet traveller

  An iron ring which traverses along on the fore-sheet horse of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. ...

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• give her sheet

  The order to ease off; give her rope. ...

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• tack or sheet

  A man's saying that he will not start tack or sheet implies resolution. ...

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• topsail-sheet bitts

  Standing bitt-heads through which the topsail-sheets lead, and to which they are belayed. ...

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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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• 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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• chain-cable shackles

  Used for coupling the parts of a chain-cable at various lengths, so that they may be disconnected wh...

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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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• haul aft a sheet

  To pull it in more towards the stern, so as to trim the sail nearer to the wind. ...

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• sheet in the wind

  Half intoxicated; as the sail trembles and is unsteady, so is a drunken man. ...

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• sprit-sail sheet knot

  May be crowned and walled, or double-walled, and is often used as a stopper-knot. ...

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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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• 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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• gather aft a sheet, to

  to pull it in, by hauling in slack. ...

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• standing part of a sheet

  That part which is secured to a ring at the ship's bow, quarter, side, &c. ...

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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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• 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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• moor with a spring on the cable, to

  See spring. ...

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