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Meanings of hempen cable in inglés

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Usage of hempen cable in inglés
1
A plunge was heard, and the hempen cable flew quickly out.
The Golden Grasshopper: A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresha...
2
He caught at the hempen cable, swarmed up it, and, the gallivat having but little freeboard, soon reached the bulwark.
In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
3
I suppose the rocks and this sawing together, parted our hempen cable, and away we went towards the shore, broadside-to.
Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
4
As the gale increased, however, it was thought necessary to let go the sheet-anchor, which had a hempen cable bent to it.
Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
5
We even had hempen cables instead of chain ones!
Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
6
Its motion is transmitted by means of ten hempen cables, 3.5 cm.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
7
The hempen cables of those days were a continual cause of solicitude, and required great care.)
Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World /...
8
Some spare hempen cables were got up from below, and made fast to them; when hove overboard they checked her way.
The Three Midshipmen
9
We were much interested in going into the rope manufactories, where ropes and hempen cables are spun in rooms twelve hundred feet long.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
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