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. - h.t.s. until recently the word cable-tow was of exclusive masonic usage, but the standard dictionary ( ) defines it as "a rope or line for drawing or leading; in freemasonry, symbolizing, in the second and third degrees, the covenant by which masons are bound." just why it should thus be limited
encyclopedia, says the word is "purely masonic" and that the german "kabeltau" is the probable derivation. lawrence, in his "practical masonic lectures," says that mabel is a word from the dutch, signifying a great rope, which, being fastened to the anchor, holds the ship fast when she rides; and that tow...
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