Assertion: buoy | /r/CapableOf | make the like
Facets:
value: fast
type: MANNER
value: to the bight of the cable
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in order to prevent galling
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: A sort of close cask, or block of wood, fastened by a rope to the anchor, to show its situation after being cast, that the ship may not come so near it as to entangle her cable about its stock or flukes.--To buoy a cable is to make fast a spar, cask, or the like, to the bight of the cable, in order to prevent its galling or rubbing on the bottom.