cabled, ppl. a.
(ˈkeɪb(ə)ld)
[f. cable n. and v. + -ed.]
a. Furnished or fastened with a cable or cables. b. Arch. c. Her. (See quots.)
| 1530 Palsgr. 473/1 My shyppe is as wel cabled as any in all the fleete. 1664 Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. 130 Sometimes we find the Striges to be fill'd up with a swelling..and these we may call Stav'd or Cabl'd Columns. 1751 Chambers Cycl., Cabled flutes, in architecture..filled up with raised or swelling pieces in form of Cables. Ibid. Cabled, in Heraldry, is applied to a cross formed of the two ends of a ship's cable. 1757 Dyer Fleece 11, In Myrina's port [they] Cast out the cabled stone upon the strand. |