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The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.
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v. t.
To fasten with a cable.
a.
Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.
n.
A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
n.
A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
v. t.
To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.
a.
Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
n.
To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
n.
A message sent by a submarine telegraphic 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.
v. t. & i.
To telegraph by a submarine cable
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To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
v. i.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
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Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
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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.
n.
The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
v. t.
To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a 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.
a.
Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.
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