The extra width was necessary to make the cable strong enough to withstand the tension required.

Most often the hook is connected by a strong cable, but a metal arm has also been seen.

It had strong black cables that led through pulleys to a tall stack of lead plates.

This then opens, and flies high over the ship from the end of a strong cable.

New, stronger cables were used to help brace the tree against high winds.

That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them.

A thousand miles of the strongest cable even produced by man.

It has to be an amazingly strong cable: we don't yet have the technology but 'carbon nanotubes' now being created in the laboratory come close.

State plans call for the bridge to remain open while workers gradually transfer its load to two new, stronger cables.

In moments he had made a new harness for Dor, with a stronger cable.