ppl. a. [f. CABLE sb. 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, trans. 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, II. In Myrina’s port [they] Cast out the cabled stone upon the strand.
