general terms, within six points;
or the axis of the ship is 67-1/2 degrees from the direction of the
wind.

BY-WASH. The outlet of water from a dam or discharge channel.

C.

CAAG. _See_ KAAG.

CABANE. A flat-bottomed passage-boat of the Loire.

CABBAGE. Those principally useful to the seaman are the esculent
cabbage-tree (_Areca oleracea_), which attains to a great height in the
W. Indies. The sheaths of the leaves are very close, and form the green
top of the trunk a foot and a half in length; this is cut off, and its
white heart eaten. Also, the _Crambe maritima_, sea-kail, or marine
cabbage, growing in the west of England.

CABIN. A room or compartment partitioned off in a ship, where the
officers and passengers reside. In a man-of-war, the principal cabin, in
which the captain or admiral lives, is the upper after-part of the
vessel.

CABIN-BOY. A boy whose duty is to attend and serve the officers and
passengers in the cabin.

CABIN-LECTURE. _See_ JOBATION.

CABIN-MATE. A companion, when two occupy a cabin furnished with two
bed-places.

CABLE. A thick, strong rope or chain which serves to keep a ship at
anchor; the rope is cable-laid, 10 inches in circumference and upwards
(those below this size being hawsers), commonly of hemp or coir, which
latter is still used by the Calcutta pilot-brigs on account of its
lightness and elasticity. But cables have recently, and all but
exclusively, been superseded by iron chain.--_A shot of cable_, two
cables spliced together.

CABLE, TO COIL A. To lay it in fakes and tiers one over the other.--_To
lay a cable._ (_See_ LAYING.)--_To pay cheap the cable_, to hand it out
apace; to throw it over.--_To pay out more cable_, to let more out of
the ship.--_To serve or plait the cable_, to bind it about with ropes,
canvas, &c.; to keep it from galling in the hawse-pipe. (_See_ ROUNDING,
KECKLING, &c.)--_To splice a cable_, to make two pieces fast together,
by working the several yarns of the rope into each other; with chain it
is done by means of shackles.--_To veer more cable_, to let more out.

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 the