[f. the sb.]
1. trans. To furnish with a cable or cables; to fasten with or as with a cable, to tie up.
c. 1500. Dunbar, Tua Mariit Wemen, 354. Se how I cabeld ȝone cout with a kene brydill!
1530. Palsgr., 473/1. I cable, I store a shyppe of cables.
1598. Florio, Gomenare … to cable an anker.
1605. T. Ryves, Vicar’s Plea (1620), 31. They are … fortefied and cabled vp with the Graunts and Priuiledges of Gregory the 14.
1634. Shirley, Example, I. i. Here I am cabled up above their shot. Ibid. (1640), Imposture, I. ii. I hope she’s not turned nun … I do not like The women should be cabled up.
1800. Naval Chron., IV. 218. His Majesty’s ships are insufficiently cabled.
1863. Ld. Lytton, Ring Amasis, II. II. III. xi. 273. The motive power of his being was cabled to Superstition.
2. Arch. To furnish (a column) with vertical convex circular mouldings, which should properly occupy the lower part of the flutings, so as to represent a rope or staff placed in the flute (Gwilt).
1766. Entick, London, IV. 91. Cabled with small pillars bound round it, with a kind of arched work and subdivisions between.
1848. Rickman, Archit., 13. These channels are sometimes partly filled by a lesser round moulding; this is called cabling the flutes.
1875. Gwilt, Archit., Gloss. s.v. Cabling. In modern times an occasional abuse has been practised of cabling without fluting, as in the church della Sapienza at Rome.
3. trans. and intr. To transmit (a message, news, etc.), or communicate, by submarine telegraph. (Const. as in to telegraph.)
1871. Schele de Vere, Americanisms (1872), 559. A late telegram by Atlantic Cable from the British Premier … said: ‘Cable how match-tax works.’
1880. Times, 28 Oct., 5/5. The exciting news cabled from Ireland.
1881. Ionia Standard, 24 March. He [i.e., Secretary Blaine] has been cabling constantly with Lord Granville.
1882. Times, 14 April, 5/3. The Secretary of State … cabled the substance of them to Minister Lowell.
1884. Kendal Merc., 1 Nov., 5. Mr. Henry Irving cabled me from Boston … that [etc.].
