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Word Meanings - WEATHERBIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. Totten.

Related words: (words related to WEATHERBIT)

  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • CABLEGRAM
    A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. Note:
  • AROUND
    1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
  • CABLET
    A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
  • ANOTHER
    1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
  • 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.
  • ANOTHER-GAINES
    Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
  • CABLED
    Adorned with cabling. (more info) 1. Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.
  • ANOTHER-GATES
    Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
  • WINDLASS
    A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ABDICABLE
    Capable of being abdicated.

 

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