[f. CABLE sb. + -ET.] A small cable or cable-laid rope less than 10 inches in circumference.

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1575–6.  in 4th Report Commiss. Hist. MSS. (1874), 114/1. An Act for the true making of great cables and cabletts.

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1613.  Voy. Guiana, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), III. 176. By the … fury of the wind and sea, the cablet broke.

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1794.  Rigging & Seamanship, I. 54. Cablets, cable-laid ropes, under nine inches in circumference.

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1800.  Naval Chron., III. 65. Made fast to the principal cablet, or hawser.

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1803.  Rep. Commiss., in Naval Chron., X. 48. Cablets—Inches, 91/2, 9, 8, 71/2 … 3.

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c. 1860.  H. Stuart, Seaman’s Catech., 52. When three cablets are laid up together, it is called ‘hawser-laid’ rope.

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