A plunge was heard, and the hempen cable flew quickly out.

He caught at the hempen cable, swarmed up it, and, the gallivat having but little freeboard, soon reached the bulwark.

I suppose the rocks and this sawing together, parted our hempen cable, and away we went towards the shore, broadside-to.

As the gale increased, however, it was thought necessary to let go the sheet-anchor, which had a hempen cable bent to it.

We even had hempen cables instead of chain ones!

Its motion is transmitted by means of ten hempen cables, 3.5 cm.

The hempen cables of those days were a continual cause of solicitude, and required great care.)

Some spare hempen cables were got up from below, and made fast to them; when hove overboard they checked her way.

We were much interested in going into the rope manufactories, where ropes and hempen cables are spun in rooms twelve hundred feet long.