cable
cable (kāʹbəl) noun
1. a. A strong, large-diameter, heavy steel or fiber rope. b. Something that resembles such steel or fiber rope.
2. Electricity. A bound or sheathed group of mutually insulated conductors.
3. Nautical. a. A heavy rope or chain for mooring or anchoring a ship. b. A cable length.
4. A cablegram.
5. Cable television.
verb
cabled, cabling, cables
verb, transitive
1. a. To send a cablegram to. b. To transmit (a message) by telegraph.
2. To supply or fasten with a cable or cables.
verb, intransitive
To send a cablegram.
[Middle English, from Old North French, from Late Latin capulum, lasso, from Latin capere, to seize.]
caʹbler noun