Her escort reached out and viciously pinched her arm for a second time since freeing her from the cable tier.
‘If we cleared away for action, our passengers - you and your father - would be sent down to the cable tier to be safe.’
They went down into the dark stifling confines of the ship's cable tier accompanied by an oath they would soon get used to: ‘Get down there, you rebel.’
And there, unlike the dark confines of the cable tier where he now found himself, had been Estelle.
So I went off, an officer following me, who told me he would shew me the place allotted to me, and took me down to the cable tier, saying to me this is your place.
Definition of cable tier in US English:
cable tier
noun
historical
A place in a ship for stowing a coiled cable.
〔航海〕〈史〉缆索盘
Example sentencesExamples
And there, unlike the dark confines of the cable tier where he now found himself, had been Estelle.
They went down into the dark stifling confines of the ship's cable tier accompanied by an oath they would soon get used to: ‘Get down there, you rebel.’
Her escort reached out and viciously pinched her arm for a second time since freeing her from the cable tier.
‘If we cleared away for action, our passengers - you and your father - would be sent down to the cable tier to be safe.’
So I went off, an officer following me, who told me he would shew me the place allotted to me, and took me down to the cable tier, saying to me this is your place.