单词 | sheet-cable |
释义 | sheet-cable Naut. [f. sheet- in sheet-anchor.] The cable belonging to the sheet-anchor.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Maistre, Vn maistre cable, ou chable, a sheat-cable. 1642H. Bond Boat Swain's Art 18 Your sheat Cable is commonly so many halfe inches about as your ship is bredth in feete at the midship Beame. 1742in Hanway Trav. (1762) I. ii. xxiii. 100 Cutting the sheet cable at the windlass, with great difficulty we wore the ship. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg. III. 115/2 The sheet cable parted about half after four o'clock. |

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