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Hawse :: Hawse (n.) That part of a vessel's bow in which are the hawse holes for the cables.

Schema :: Schema (n.) An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind; as, five dots in a line are a schema of the number five; a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect..

Vocable :: Vocable (n.) A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning..

Fouty :: Fouty (a.) Despicable.

Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable..

Clubhaul :: Clubhaul (v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency..

Cable :: Cable (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..

Impertinent :: Impertinent (a.) Not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable.

Effectible :: Effectible (a.) Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible.

Wretched :: Wretched (a.) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.

Communicable :: Communicable (a.) Communicative; free-speaking.

Jew''s-harp :: Jew's-harp (n.) The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.

Round :: Round (prep.) On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass..

Unwarrantable :: Unwarrantable (a.) Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper.

Predicable :: Predicable (a.) Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.

Underrun :: Underrun (v. t.) To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it..

Sheet Cable :: Sheet cable () The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.

Irrevocability :: Irrevocability (n.) The state or quality of being irrevocable; irrevocableness.

Unapplicable :: Unapplicable (a.) Inapplicable.

Equivocal :: Equivocal (a.) (Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretation; of doubtful meaning; ambiguous; uncertain; as, equivocal words; an equivocal sentence..

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