Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cable or hawser of the stream-anchor.
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Examples
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He wanted to take a length of old stream-cable and a kedge-anchor with him in the long-boat.
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After the deck was cleared of these sanguinary savages, several guns were fired at the village, the sails were loosened, stream-cable cut, and the ship put to sea.
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After this signal, each ship ought to have sent a stream-cable to the ship astern of her, and to have made a hawser fast to the cable about twenty fathoms in the water, and passed the opposite side to that intended as a spring;
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison
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He wanted to take a length of old stream-cable and a kedge-anchor with him in the long-boat.
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He wanted to take a length of old stream-cable and a kedge-anchor with him in the long-boat.
Youth, a Narrative Joseph Conrad 1890
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_Superb_, and passing her stream-cable out of the larboard gun-room port to the _Albion_, brought the two ships together.
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It was one of Hawkins's, with the double fluke, and immediately brought up, not merely the ship, but a large floe of young ice which had just broken our stream-cable.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 William Edward Parry 1822
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Our young mate, and his sole assistant, Bob Betts, had set about their work on the stream-cable and anchor, the lightest and most manageable of all the ground-tackle in the vessel.
The Crater James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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After this signal, each ship ought to have sent a stream-cable to the ship astern of her, and to have made a hawser fast to the cable about twenty fathoms in the water, and passed the opposite side to that intended as a spring; this was not generally executed.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson Harrison, James 1806
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In the afternoon, a sudden gust of wind broke the stream-cable, by which the
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