Assertion: buoy | /r/HasProperty | to make cask
Facets:
value: to make a spar
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.