sheet-cablen.
Nautical.
The cable belonging to the sheet-anchor.
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sheet-cable1611
stream-cable1618
long service1662
bower-cable1748
sheet-shot1750
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Maistre Vn maistre cable, ou chable, a sheat-cable.
1642 H. Bond Boate Swaines Art 18 Your sheat Cable is commonly so many halfe inches about as your ship is bredth in feete at the midship Beame.
1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxiii. 152 Cutting the sheet cable at the windless, with great difficulty we wore the ship.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Suppl. Chron. 115/2 The sheet cable parted about half after four o'clock.
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