Definitions for cabling

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cabling ca·bling

Spelling: [key-bling]

IPA: /ˈkeɪ blɪŋ/

Cabling is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in cabling (abcgiln).

Definitions for cabling

noun

1. decoration with cable moldings.
2. reedings set into the flutes of a column or pilaster.
3. a heavy, strong rope.
4. a very strong rope made of strands of metal wire, as used to support cable cars or suspension bridges.
5. a cord of metal wire used to operate or pull a mechanism.
6. Nautical. a thick hawser made of rope, strands of metal wire, or chain. cable's length.
7. Electricity. an insulated electrical conductor, often in strands, or a combination of electrical conductors insulated from one another.
8. cablegram.
9. cable television.
10. cable-stitch.
11. Architecture. one of a number of reedings set into the flutes of a column or pilaster.

verb (used with object)

1. to send (a message) by cable.
2. to send a cablegram to.
3. to fasten with a cable.
4. to furnish with a cable.
5. to join (cities, parts of a country, etc.) by means of a cable television network:

verb (used without object)

1. to send a message by cable.
2. to cable-stitch.

Origin of cabling

First recorded in 1745-55; cable + -ing¹

Examples for cabling

I've spent over eleven pounds cabling to-day; but it's all no good.

It practises the art of cabling—with Mr. Chamberlain for preference.

Advising my family from Liverpool of my intentions, and cabling him at the same time, I sailed.

And, let me tell you that cabling is very expensive just now.

In one kind the idea is to save words—in telegraphing or cabling.

After cabling and getting his orders, Doc headed for his base.

Why, who ever heard of a code book for cabling on baby business?

I am cabling to Morrison at Ottawa, that I am available either as combatant or medical if they need me.

When he was staying with us he was for ever telegraphing, cabling to America, or decoding messages.

Doria told Barbara that the editor had been cabling frenziedly.