Word Meanings - SHEETCHAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chain sheet cable.

• Sheeting
  of Sheet
• Sheet anchor
  A large anchor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.
• Cablegram
  A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.
• Sheet cable
  The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.
• Cablelaid
  Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
• Sheet chain
  A chain sheet cable.
• Sheetfuls
  of Sheetful
• Sheetful
  Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold.
• CHAINPUMP
  A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water
• CHAINSTITCH
  A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as distinguished from the lock stitch. See Stitch.
• Chainless
  Having no chain; not restrained or fettered.

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