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. |
Cable (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance |
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 |
Cable (v. t.) To fasten with a cable. |
Cable (v. t.) To ornament with cabling. See Cabling. |
Cable (v. t. & i.) To telegraph by a submarine cable |
Glass-rope (n.) A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together. |
Guess rope () A guess warp. |
Guest rope () The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. |
Rope (n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage. |
Rope (n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc. |
Rope (n.) The small intestines |
Rope (v. i.) To be formed into rope |
Rope (v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord |
Rope (v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope. |
Rope (v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something |
Rope (v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse). |
Rope (v. t.) To draw, as with a rope |
Rope (v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing. |
Rope's-end (v. t.) To punish with a rope's end. |
Rope-yarn (n.) the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made. |
Sheet cable () The cable belonging to the sheet anchor. |
Top-rope (n.) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes. |
Wire (n.) A thread or slender rod of metal |
Wire (n.) A telegraph wire or cable |
Wire (v. t.) To bind with wire |
Wire (v. t.) To put upon a wire |
Wire (v. t.) To snare by means of a wire or wires. |
Wire (v. t.) To send (a message) by telegraph. |
Wire (v. i.) To pass like a wire |
Wire (v. i.) To send a telegraphic message. |
Wire-drawer (n.) One who draws metal into wire. |
Wire-heel (n.) A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast. |
Wire-puller (n.) One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet |
Wire-pulling (n.) The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet |
Wire-tailed (a.) Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules. |
Wire-worker (n.) One who manufactures articles from wire. |