Word Meanings - CABLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.

Related words: (words related to CABLET)

• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• CABLEGRAM
  A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. Note:
• CIRCUMFERENCE
  1. The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery. Millon. 2. A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton. 3. The external
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• CABLET
  A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
• INCHEST
  To put into a chest.
• 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
• CABLELAID
  Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable. 2. Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain. Simmonds.
• CABLED
  Adorned with cabling. (more info) 1. Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• VOCABLE
  A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle. (more info) fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis,
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• IMMEDICABLE
  Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• MULTIPLICABLE
  Capable of being multiplied; multipliable.
• ERADICABLE
  Capable of being eradicated.
• PECCABLE
  Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law. "A frail and peccable mortal." Sir W. Scott.
• IMPACABLE
  Not to be appeased or quieted. Spenser. -- Im*pa"ca*bly, adv.
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• VITRIFICABLE
  Vitrifiable.
• MASTICABLE
  Capable of being masticated.
• MERCABLE
  Capable of being bought or sold.
• PACABLE
  Placable. Coleridge.
• REVOCABLE
  Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
• INJUDICABLE
  Not cognizable by a judge. Bailey.
• TRAFFICABLE
  Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. Bp. Hall.