caburn Naut.
(ˈkæbən)
[? connected with cable.]
(pl.) ‘Spun rope-yarn lines, for worming a cable, seizing, winding tacks, and the like’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
| 1626 Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 16 Cables serue..for rope yarne, caburn, sinnit, an[d] okum. 1627 ― Seaman's Gram. v. 25 Caburne is a small line made of spun yarne to make a bend of two Cables, or to sease the Tackels, or the like. 1678 in Phillips; also in mod. Dicts. |