CABLE

The great rope of a ship, to which the anchor is fastened.

Cc. R. An abbreviation for curia regis; also for chancery reports. ©. T. A. An abbreviation for cum testamento annezo, in describing a species of administration. A large and strong rope or chain, such as is attached to a vessel's anchors, or the traction-rope of a street railway operated by the cable system, (Hooper v. Railway Co., 85 Md. 509, 37 Atl. 359, 38 L. R. A. 509,)

whom it lawfully operates, as an act of Parliament has upon the subjects at large." 1 2. A rule or law of a corporation for its own government. An act of legislation; therefore the formalities required by the charter for its passage must be observed. It may be in the form of a "resolution," although that is not necessarily a by-law.2 By-laws are the orders and regulations which a corporation, as one of its legal incidents, has power to make, and which is usually exercised to regulate its own action and concerns and the rights and duties of its members among themselves. See CHARTER, 2; ORDINANCE, 1. See COMMERCE; TELEGRAPH. The act of Congress approved February 29, 1888 (25 St. L. 41), entitled an act to carry into effect the International Convention of March 14, 1884, for the protection of submarine cables, provides: "Section 1. That any person who shall willfully and wrongfully break or injure, or attempt to break or injure, or who shall in any manner procure, counsel, aid, abet, or be accessory to such breaking or injury, or attempt to break or injure, a submarine cable, in such manner as to interrupt or embarrass, in whole or in part, telegraphic communication, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or to both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court." "Sec. 2. That any person who by culpable negli3. As an abbreviation, may also denote gence shall break or injure a submarine cable in such case, chancellor, chancery, chief, circuit, civil, code, commissioner, common, counsel, court, criminal, crown: C. A. Chancery appeals; court of appeals. C. A. V. Curia advisari vult. The court wishes to consider the matter. See further CURIA, Advisari, etc. C. B. Chief baron; common bench. C. C. Cepi corpus; chief commissioner; circuit, city, or county court; chancery, civil, criminal, or crown cases; civil code. C. C. J. Circuit, city, or county court judge. C. C. P. Code of civil procedure: court of common pleas. C. D. Commissioners' (patent) decisions. C. J. Chief justice; circuit judge. C. J. B. Chief judge in bankruptcy. C. L. Civil law; common law.

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. 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. 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. Bower cable, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. -- Cable road, a railway on which the cars are moved by a continuously running endless rope operated by a stationary motor. -- Cable's length, the length of a ship's cable. Cables in the merchant service vary in length from 100 to 140 fathoms or more; but as a maritime measure, a cable's length is either 120 fathoms (720 feet), or about 100 fathoms (600 feet, an approximation to one tenth of a nautical mile). -- Cable tier. (a) That part of a vessel where the cables are stowed. (b) A coil of a cable. -- Sheet cable, the cable belonging to the sheet anchor. -- Stream cable, a hawser or rope, smaller than the bower cables, to moor a ship in a place sheltered from wind and heavy seas. -- Submarine cable. See Telegraph. -- To pay out the cable, To veer out the cable, to slacken it, that it may run out of the ship; to let more cable run out of the hawse hole. -- To serve the cable, to bind it round with ropes, canvas, etc., to prevent its being, worn or galled in the hawse, et. -- To slip the cable, to let go the end on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not time to weigh anchor. Hence, in sailor's use, to die.

To fasten with a cable. To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.

To telegraph by a submarine cable [Recent]

A surname from Anglo-Norman. | A place in the United States: | A census-designated place in Richland Grove Township, Mercer County, Illinois. | A place in the United States: | An unincorporated community in Haven Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota. | A place in the United States: | An unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Champaign County, Ohio. | A place in the United States: | A town and census-designated place therein, in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.

A long object used to make a physical connection. | A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope. | A long object used to make a physical connection. | An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes. | A long object used to make a physical connection. | An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated. | A long object used to make a physical connection. | A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship. | A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables. | A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables. | Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna. | A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable. | A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile. | 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m. | The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar. | A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope. | A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.

To provide (something) with cable(s). | To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s). | To wrap (wires) to form a cable. | To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable. | To communicate by cable. | To ornament (something) with cabling. | To create cable stitches.