Word Meanings - WEATHERBIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass. Totten.

Related words: (words related to WEATHERBIT)

• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• CABLEGRAM
  A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable. Note:
• AROUND
  1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
• CABLET
  A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• CABLE
  A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding. Bower cable, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. -- Cable road, a railway on which the
• CABLELAID
  Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable. 2. Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain. Simmonds.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• CABLED
  Adorned with cabling. (more info) 1. Fastened with, or attached to, a cable or rope. "The cabled stone." Dyer.
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• WINDLASS
  A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• VOCABLE
  A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle. (more info) fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis,
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• IMMEDICABLE
  Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• MULTIPLICABLE
  Capable of being multiplied; multipliable.
• ERADICABLE
  Capable of being eradicated.
• PECCABLE
  Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law. "A frail and peccable mortal." Sir W. Scott.
• IMPACABLE
  Not to be appeased or quieted. Spenser. -- Im*pa"ca*bly, adv.
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• MASTICABLE
  Capable of being masticated.
• VITRIFICABLE
  Vitrifiable.
• MERCABLE
  Capable of being bought or sold.
• PACABLE
  Placable. Coleridge.
• REVOCABLE
  Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
• INJUDICABLE
  Not cognizable by a judge. Bailey.
• TRAFFICABLE
  Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. Bp. Hall.
• ABDICABLE
  Capable of being abdicated.