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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley)	202	0	Browse	Search
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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley)	56	0	Browse	Search
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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation	18	0	Browse	Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)

1. Rods with eyes and connecting-links were used by Telford on the Menai Suspension Bridge, 1829; steel wires laid up (not twisted) into cables are now used. See suspension-bridge; Frontispiece. Chain-bond. The tying together of parts of a stone-wall by a chain or iron bar built in. Chain-cable. （Nautical.) A chain adapted to use as a cable in holding a ship to its moorings or anchor. The ancient Greeks used rushes; the Carthaginians the spartium or broom of Spain and Libya (Africa); the Egyptians, papyrus. The ancient maritime people, the Veneti, used iron chain-cable for their ships in the time of Julius Caesar. In the tenth century the nations of the Baltic used ropes of twisted rawhide thongs. The latter were used in Britain till the third century, and are yet used in Western Scotland for boats and draft. Chain-cables were used by the Britons. (CAeSAR.) They were common long ago in small sizes, but were only lately made for heavy craft. They have sh

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