CABANES, the cabins or apartments wherein the officers and tailors sleep or mess aboard a ship. See TEUGUE.

CABESTAN, the capstern or crab of a ship.

Virer au CABESTAN, to heave at the capstern.

CABILLOT, a toggel; also a wooden pin for belaying ropes.

CAILLE, the cable; also a measure of 120 fathoms, called by the English seamen a cable's length.

CABLE à pic, the situation of the cable when the ship is clofe a-peek upon her anchor.

CABLE de toueî, a stream-cable, or large hauser.

CABLE tourné, or qui a un tour, or demi-tour a foul hawse; a cross or elbow in the hawse.

Bitter le CABLE, to bit the cable, or clap it on the bits. See BITTER.

Couper, or tailler le CABLE, to cut the cable in the hawse.

Donner le CABLE à un vaisseau, to give a cable's end to another ship; to take a ship in tow at sea.

Filer du CABLE, to slack out or veer away the cable. See FILER.

Laisser traîner un CABLE sur le sillage au vaisseau, to drag a cable in the ship's wake in order to retard her course, when she is chased by a vessel of inferior force, which is decoyed, by this stratagem, till within reach of her cannon.

Lover un CABLE, to coil a cable.

CABLEAU, the painter, or mooring-rope of a boat.

CABLER, to make large ropes or cables.

CABOTAGE, the art of a coasting-pilot; as the knowledge of the shore, the tides, ports, rivers, capes, soundings, &c. on any particular coast.

CABOTER, to coast, or sail along the shore between cape and cape.

CABOTIERE, a barge; also a large flat-bottomed lighter with a long rudder.

CABRE, a sort of gin, or machine resembling the sheers of a ship, and used to heave up pieces of timber on the wharf of a river.

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