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Home Dictionary Name: cable Page: 5 Page 5 of about 71 results ( seconds)Cable
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...
Cabled
Fastened with or attached to a cable or rope...
Cablegram
A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable...
Cablelaid
Composed of three three stranded ropes or hawsers twisted together to form a cable...
bathysphere
a spherical deep diving apparatus lowered by a cable for underwater exploration it is constructed with a strong steel shell to withstand high pressures at the ocean bottom...
Capstan
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder revolving on an upright spindle and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers It is much used especially on shipboard for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable passing around the drum It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket...
hawsehole
a hole in the bow of a ship through which the anchor rope or cable passes...
Clubhaul
To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails which brings the vessels 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...
Kneck
The twisting of a rope or cable as it is running out...
Hawser laid
Made in the manner of a hawser Cf Cable laid and see Illust of Cordage...
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