cable buoy

noun

An empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.

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Meanings

nouncable buoy (plural cable buoys)

plural cable buoys

  1. nauticalAn empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage.
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