Helen Fenton

Cacholong: Definition and part of speech

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Cacholong

  1. n. An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cable: Definition and part of speech

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Cable

  1. v. t. To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
  2. n. A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.
  3. n. A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.
  4. n. 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.
  5. v. t. To fasten with a cable.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cablelaid: Definition and part of speech

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Cablelaid

  1. a. Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.
  2. a. Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.