a.
Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.
n.
A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.
a.
Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
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Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.
n.
A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
n.
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.
n.
A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.
n.
A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.
v. t.
To roast, as a cabob.
a.
Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing.
n.
The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle.
n.
A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley.
n.
A car used on freight or construction trains for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool car.
n.
Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.
n.
The pronghorn antelope.
n.
An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain.
n.
A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.