Definition of cable

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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..

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Vindicable :: Vindicable (a.) Capable of being vindicated.
Dolphin :: Dolphin (n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
Predicability :: Predicability (n.) The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something..
Inapplicability :: Inapplicability (n.) The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
Fouty :: Fouty (a.) Despicable.
Scope :: Scope (n.) Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable..
Feasible :: Feasible (a.) Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable..
Placability :: Placability (n.) The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.
Parting :: Parting (n.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence..
Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease..
Performable :: Performable (a.) Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable..
Indefinable :: Indefinable (a.) Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
Implacableness :: Implacableness (n.) The quality of being implacable; implacability.
Hawse :: Hawse (n.) The distance ahead to which the cables usually extend; as, the ship has a clear or open hawse, or a foul hawse; to anchor in our hawse, or athwart hawse..
Gable :: Gable (n.) A cable.
Hawse :: Hawse (n.) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.
Pitiful :: Pitiful (a.) To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
Boatswain :: Boatswain (n.) An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties..
Apposite :: Apposite (a.) Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case..
Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
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