meaning of cable
1. 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.
2. A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.
3. A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding.
4. To fasten with a cable.
5. To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
6. To telegraph by a submarine cable
7. a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
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