Cable-BUOYS, are common casks employed to buoy up the cables in different places from rocky ground. In
the harbour of Alexandria in Egypt, every ship is moored with at least three cables, and has three or four of these buoys on each cable for this purpose.
Slings of the BUOR, the ropes which are fastened about it, and by which it is hung: they are curiously spliced around it, something resembling the braces of a drum.
To stream the BUOR, is to let it fall from the ship's side into the water; which is always done before they let go the anchor, that it may not be retarded by the buoy-rope as it sinks to the bottom.