An Universal Dictionary of the Marine / Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.

by William Falconer

Cable de touei, a stream-cable, or large hauser.

Cable tourné, or qui à un tour, or demi-tour, a foul hause, a cross or elbow in the hause.

Bitter le Cable, to bit the cable, or clap it on the bits. See Bitter.

Couper, or tailler le Cable, to cut the cable in the hause.

Donner le Cable à un vaisseau, to give a cable’s end to another ship; to take a ship in tow at sea.

Filer du Cable, to slack out or veer away the cable. See Filer.

Laisser trainer un Cable sur le sillage du vaisseau, to drag a cable in the ship’s wake in order to prevent her sailing swiftly, when she is chased by a vessel of inferior force, which is decoyed by this stratagem within reach of her cannon.

Lover un Cable, to coil a cable.

CABLEAU, the painter, or mooring-rope of a boat.

CABLER, to make large ropes or cables.