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Cable
CABLE, n. cabl. A large strong rope or chain, used to retain a vessel at anchor. It is made usually of hemp or iron, but may be made of other materials. Cables are of different sizes, according to the bulk of the vessel for which they are intended, from three to twenty inches in circumference. A cable is composed of three strands; each strand of three ropes; and each rope of three twists. A ships cable is usually 120 fathom, or 720 feet, in length. Hence the expression, a cables length.
Stream cable is a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas.
To pay out, or to veer out the cable, is to slacken it that it may run out of the ship.
To serve the cable, is to bind it round with ropes, canvas, etc., to prevent its being worn or galled in the hawse.
To slip the cable, is to let it run out end for end.
cable appears in definitions for these words:
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Anchor Apeak Back Barricade Bend Bitter Bitts Boatswain Break Bridge Bridle Buoy Cable Cable-tier Cabled Cablet Caburns Chafe Check Clear Clinch Faith Fake Fathom Freshen Gallstone Halser Hawse Hawse-hole Hawser Heave Inch Jigger Junk Keckle Lay Lock Marline Moor Moorcock Mooring Norman Orlop Part Parting Pay Purchase Quarter Reach Ride Rope Round Rounding Rouse Scope Shot Slip Spring Stopper Surge Tackle Tie Trip Tripping Unbend Unbent Unbit Unmoor Veer Weather-bit Worm
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