Cablegram
a telegram sent by underwater cable.
Historical Examples
The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball
Uncanny Tales Various
A Top-Floor Idyl George van Schaick
A Woman Intervenes Robert Barr
Mary’s Rainbow Mary Edward Feehan
A Woman Intervenes Robert Barr
Whirligigs O. Henry
A Woman Intervenes Robert Barr
The Colonel of the Red Huzzars John Reed Scott
A Woman Intervenes Robert Barr
noun
a more formal name for cable (sense 5)
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a small cable, especially a cablelaid rope under 10 inches (25 cm) in circumference. Historical Examples The Sailor’s Word-Book William Henry Smyth People You Know George Ade The Sailor’s Word-Book William Henry Smyth noun a small cable, esp a cable-laid rope that has a circumference of less than 25 centimetres (ten inches)
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