stream-cable

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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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• Stream

  ·noun A beam or ray of light. II. Stream ·vt To <<Unfurl>>. III. Stream ·vi To pour out, or emit, ...

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• stream

  Anglo-Saxon for flowing water, meaning especially the middle or most rapid part of a tide or current...

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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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• Stream clock

  ·add. ·- An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel. ...

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• Stream gold

  ·add. ·- Gold in alluvial deposits; placer gold. ...

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• Stream line

  ·add. ·- The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like. ...

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• Stream wheel

  ·add. ·- A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a ...

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• gulf-stream

  Is especially referable to that of Mexico, the waters of which flow in a warm stream at various velo...

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• sea-stream

  In polar parlance, is when a collection of bay-ice is exposed on one side to the ocean, and affords ...

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• stream-anchor

  A smaller one by two-thirds than the bowers, and larger than the kedges, used to ride steady, or moo...

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• stream-ice

  A collection of pieces of drift or bay ice, joining each other in a ridge following in the line of c...

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• stream-lake

  One which communicates with, the sea by means of a river. ...

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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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• 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 of Egypt

  (Isa. 27:12), the Wady el-Arish, called also "the river of Egypt," R.V., "brook of Egypt" (Num. 34:5...

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• Stream Of Egypt

  occurs once in the Old Testament- (Isaiah 27:12) [RIVER OF EGYPT] RIVER OF EGYPT - 3664 ...

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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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• stream the buoy, to

  To let the buoy fall from the after-part of the ship's side into the water, preparatory to letting g...

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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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• 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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