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- Cable - n. - 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.
- Cable - n. - 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.
- Cable - n. - 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.
- Cable - v. t. - To fasten with a cable.
- Cable - v. t. - To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
- Cable - v. t. & i. - To telegraph by a submarine cable
- Cabled - imp. & p. p. - of Cable
- Cabled - a. - Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.
- Cabled - a. - Adorned with cabling.
- Cablegram - n. - A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.
- Cablelaid - a. - Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
- Cablelaid - a. - Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.
- Cablet - n. - A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
- Bend - v. t. - To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
- Fleet - n. & a. - To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
- Surge - n. - The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
- Astay - adv. - An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.
- Fake - n. - One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
- Apeak - adv. & a. - In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak.
- Foul - v. t. - To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
- Cabled - a. - Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.
- Trip - v. t. - To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- Junk - n. - Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
- Nippers - n. pl. - A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
- Spring - v. i. - A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.
- Cablet - n. - A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
- Lay - v. t. - To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
- Tripping - n. - The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
- Chafe - v. i. - To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.
- Crossbeam - n. - A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
- Weather-bit - n. - A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
- Clubhaul - v. t. - To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.
- Cable - n. - 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.
- Weatherbit - v. t. - To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass.
- Bitter - n. - AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
- Sheet cable - - The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.
- Cable - n. - 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.
- Round - prep. - On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass.
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- G786 ἄσπονδος - 786 ἄσπονδος - ἌΣΠΟΝΔΟΣ - - áspondos - as'-pon-dos - from Α (as a negative particle) and a derivative of σπένδω; literally, without libation (which usually accompanied a treaty), i.e. (by implication) truceless:--implacable, truce-breaker. - Adjective - greek
- H5546 סַלָּח - 5546 סַלָּח - סַלָּח - - çallâch - saw-lawkh' - from סָלַח; placable; ready to forgive. - Adjective - heb
- G278 ἀμεταμέλητος - 278 ἀμεταμέλητος - ἈΜΕΤΑΜΈΛΗΤΟΣ - - ametamélētos - am-et-am-el'-ay-tos - from Α (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of μεταμέλλομαι; irrevocable:--without repentance, not to be repented of. - Adjective - greek
- G1422 δύσκολος - 1422 δύσκολος - ΔΎΣΚΟΛΟΣ - - dýskolos - doo'-kol-os - from δυσ- and (food); properly, fastidious about eating (peevish), i.e. (genitive case) impracticable:--hard. - Adjective - greek
- G5269 ὑποζώννυμι - 5269 ὑποζώννυμι - ὙΠΟΖΏΝΝΥΜΙ - - hypozṓnnymi - hoop-od-zone'-noo-mee - from ὑπό and ζώννυμι; to gird under, i.e. frap (a vessel with cables across the keel, sides and deck):--undergirt. - Verb - greek
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