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CABLED

Volume 3 · 102 words · 1778 Edition

heraldry, a term applied to a cross formed of the two ends of a ship's cable; sometimes also to a cross covered over with rounds of rope; more properly called a cross corded.

Cable Flute, in architecture, such flutes as are filled up with pieces in the form of a cable.

Caboo de Istria, the capital town of the province of Istria, in the territory of Venice; and the see of a bishop. It is seated on a small island in the gulf of Venice, and is joined to the main land by draw-bridges.

E. Long. 14. 22. N. Lat. 45. 49.