cabling

[ key-bling ]

noun

, Architecture.

1. decoration with cable moldings.
2. reedings set into the flutes of a column or pilaster.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cabling¹

First recorded in 1745–55; cable + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Fresh light may be shed on the matter by the battle now imminent, but I am cabling on reasoned existing facts.

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I soon found out by cabling from headquarters that he had left Buenos Ayres for London some two months ago.

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He tried to figure out some foolproof way of cabling to Havana, but the censorship hazards were too great.

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Up to the last moment in July, 1914, he was cabling his New York partner that there would probably be no hostilities.

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I expected another babe in the woods and I was contemplating cabling the police to look out for them and shoo away the wolves.

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