Cable buoy


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an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.

See also: Buoy

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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"The first man released a long cable buoyed by pieces of cork that carried it to the surface.
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