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Secured By Rope Or Cable Crossword Clue and Answers List

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HAWSER Mooring rope or cable
CABLED Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope.
KNECK The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out.
KECKLING Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See Keckle, v. t.
NIPPERS A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
TRIPPING The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.
UNBIT To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable.
STIRRUP A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
TRIP To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
LAY To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
BEND To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
WORM To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.
CABLE 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.
FOUL Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
SERVE To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving.
MESSENGER A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable.
BREECHING A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged.
CUCKOLD'S KNOT A hitch or knot, by which a rope is secured to a spar, the two parts of the rope being crossed and seized together; -- called also cuckold's neck.
COLLAR An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
KECKLE To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice.
ANCHOR A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or...
TOGGLE ...ove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capabl...
CAPSTAN A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much ...
LOCKEDUP Secured
TELEGRAM Cable
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