Encara no tenim significats per a "hempen cable".
1A plunge was heard, and the hempen cable flew quickly out.
2He caught at the hempen cable, swarmed up it, and, the gallivat having but little freeboard, soon reached the bulwark.
3I suppose the rocks and this sawing together, parted our hempen cable, and away we went towards the shore, broadside-to.
4As the gale increased, however, it was thought necessary to let go the sheet-anchor, which had a hempen cable bent to it.
5We even had hempen cables instead of chain ones!
6Its motion is transmitted by means of ten hempen cables, 3.5 cm.
7The hempen cables of those days were a continual cause of solicitude, and required great care.)
8Some spare hempen cables were got up from below, and made fast to them; when hove overboard they checked her way.
9We were much interested in going into the rope manufactories, where ropes and hempen cables are spun in rooms twelve hundred feet long.
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