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cablet|ˈkeɪblɪt|
[f. cable n. + -et1.]
A small cable or cable-laid rope less than 10 inches in circumference.
1575–6in 4th Report Commiss. Hist. MSS. (1874) 114/1 An Act for the true making of great cables and cabletts. 1613Voy. Guiana in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 176 By the..fury of the wind and sea, the cablet broke. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 54 Cablets, cable-laid ropes, under nine inches in circumference. 1800Naval Chron. III. 65 Made fast to the principal cablet, or hawser. 1803Rep. Commiss. in Naval Chron. X. 48 Cablets—Inches, 9½, 9, 8, 7½..3. 1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 52 When three cablets are laid up together, it is called ‘hawser-laid rope’. |