Definition of cable

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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..

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Unapplicable :: Unapplicable (a.) Inapplicable.
Crossbeam :: Crossbeam (n.) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor..
Incommunicability :: Incommunicability (n.) The quality or state of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted..
Unwarrantable :: Unwarrantable (a.) Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper.
Implacable :: Implacable (a.) Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable.
Impracticably :: Impracticably (adv.) In an impracticable manner.
Inexpiable :: Inexpiable (a.) Incapable of being mollified or appeased; relentless; implacable.
Cablelaid :: Cablelaid (a.) Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain..
Appeasable :: Appeasable (a.) Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable.
Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..
Inextirpable :: Inextirpable (a.) Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.
Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable..
Inextricable :: Inextricable (a.) Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion..
Univocal :: Univocal (n.) A generic term, or a term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces..
Assets :: Assets (n. pl.) Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts..
Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc..
Impossible :: Impossible (a.) Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible..
Suspiciency :: Suspicable (v. t.) Liable to suspicion; suspicious.
Shabby :: Shabby (n.) Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment..
Capstan :: Capstan (n.) 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..
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