CABLE-BENDS. Two small ropes for lashing the end of a hempen cable to its own part, in order to secure the clinch by which it is fastened to the anchor-ring. CABLE-BITTED. So bitted as to enable the cable to be nipped or rendered with ease. CABLE-BITTS. _See_ BITTS. CABLE-BUOYS. Peculiar casks employed to buoy up rope cables in a rocky anchorage, to prevent their rubbing against the rocks; they are also attached to the end of a cable when it is slipped, with the object of finding it again. CABLE-ENOUGH. The call when cable enough is veered to permit of the anchor being brought to the cat-head. CABLE-HANGER. A term applied to any person catching oysters in the river Medway, not free of the fishery, and who is liable to such penalty as the mayor and citizens of Rochester shall impose upon him. CABLE-LAID ROPE. Is a rope of which each strand is a hawser-laid rope. Hawser-laid ropes are simple three-strand ropes, and range up to the same size as cablets, as from 3/4 to 9 inches. (_See_ ROPE.) CABLE-SHEET, SHEET-CABLE. The spare bower cable belonging to a ship. Sheet is deemed stand-by, and is also applied to its anchor. CABLE'S LENGTH. A measure of about 100 fathoms, by which the distances of ships in a fleet are frequently estimated. This term is frequently misunderstood. In all marine charts a cable is deemed 607·56 feet, or one-tenth of a sea mile. In rope-making the cable varies from 100 to 115 fathoms; cablet, 120 fathoms; hawser-laid, 130 fathoms, as determined by the admiralty in 1830. CABLE-STAGE. A place constructed in the hold, or cable-tier, for coiling cables and hawsers on. CABLE-STREAM, STREAM-CABLE. A hawser or rope something smaller than the bower, used to move or hold the ship temporarily during a calm in a river or haven, sheltered from the wind and sea, &c. CABLE-TIER. The place in a hold, or between decks, where the cables are coiled away. CABOBBLED. Confused or puzzled. CABOBS, OR KEBAUB. The Turkish name for small fillets of meat broiled on wooden spits; the use of the term has been extended eastward, and in India signifies a hot spiced dish of fish, flesh, or fowl. CABONS. _See_ KABURNS. CABOOSE, OR CAMBOOSE. The cook-room or kitchen of merchantmen on deck; a diminutive substitute for the galley of a man-of-war. It is generally furnished with cast-iron apparatus for cooking. CABOTAGE [Ital.] Sailing from cape to cape along a coast; or the details of coast pilotage. CABURNS. Spun rope-yarn lines, for worming a cable, seizing, winding tacks, and the like. CACAO [Sp.] The plant _Theobroma_, from which what is commonly termed cocoa is derived. CACCLE, OR KECCLE. To apply a particular kind of service to the cable. (_See_ KECKLING.) CACHE. A hidden reservoir of provision (to secure it from bears) in Arctic travel. Also, a deposit of despatches, &c. CADE. A small barrel of about 500 herrings, or 1000 sprats.