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Cable [fr. cabl, Welsh; cabel, Dut.], the grate rope of a ship, to which the anchor is fastened. The proof and sale of chain cables and anchors, formerly regulated by the (English) Chain Cable and Anchors Acts, 1864, 1871, and 1874 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 27), (34 & 35 Vict. c. 101), and (37 & 38 Vict. c. 51) (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Shipping'), are now regulated by the (English) Consolidating Anchors and Chain Cables Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 23), which simplifies and amends the law by providing more elaborate tests, the Schedule containing which takes the place of Rules of the Board of Trade, by which Board, however, it can be altered from time to time.

Means a length of insulated single conductor (solid or stranded or of two or more such conductors, each provided with its own insulation, which are laid up together. Such insulated conductor or conductors may or may not be provided with an overall mechanical protective covering. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (g)]