Cable

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To fasten with a cable.

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

III. Cable ·vt To ornament with cabling. ·see Cabling.

IV. Cable ·noun A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope;

— called also cable molding.

V. Cable ·noun A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.

VI. Cable ·noun A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.

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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-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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  • Cable, George Washington

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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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  • 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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