CPage 5
- English Word Cable Definition 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.
- English Word Cable Definition 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.
- English Word Cable Definition 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.
- English Word Cable Definition To fasten with a cable.
- English Word Cable Definition To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
- English Word Cable Definition To telegraph by a submarine cable
- English Word Cabled Definition of Cable
- English Word Cabled Definition Adorned with cabling.
- English Word Cabled Definition Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.
- English Word Cablegram Definition A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.
- English Word Cablelaid Definition Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
- English Word Cablelaid Definition Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.
- English Word Cablet Definition A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
- English Word Cabling Definition The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.
- English Word Cabling Definition of Cable
- English Word Cabman Definition The driver of a cab.
- English Word Cabmen Definition of Cabman
- English Word Cabob Definition A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.
- English Word Cabob Definition A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.
- English Word Cabob Definition To roast, as a cabob.