Definition of cable

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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..

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Sheet Chain :: Sheet chain () A chain sheet cable.
Cablelaid :: Cablelaid (a.) Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain..
Apeak :: Apeak (adv. & a.) In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak..
Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices..
Predicability :: Predicability (n.) The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something..
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..
Vile :: Vile (superl.) Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
Unaccountable :: Unaccountable (a.) Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious.
Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
Unplacable :: Unplacable (a.) Implacable.
Inexplainable :: Inexplainable (a.) Incapable of being explained; inexplicable.
Placable :: Placable (a.) Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.
Weather-bit :: Weather-bit (n.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits..
Inexplicability :: Inexplicability (n.) The quality or state of being inexplicable.
Fleet :: Fleet (n. & a.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
Amicability :: Amicability (n.) The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness.
Masticable :: Masticable (a.) Capable of being masticated.
Implacable :: Implacable (a.) Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable.
Assets :: Assets (n. pl.) Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts..
Friendly :: Friendly (a.) Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable..
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