cable-laid

adjective

1. (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction

Example Sentences

A knot made by unlaying the strands of a cable-laid rope, and also the small strand of each large strand; and after single and double walling them, as for a stopper-knot, worm the divisions, and round the rope.

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A large cable-laid rope, used to unmoor or heave up the anchor of a ship, by the aid of the capstan.

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A general term for the running-rigging of a ship, as also for rope of any size which is kept in reserve, and for all stuff to make ropes.—Cable-laid cordage.

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The act of passing four or five turns of a large cable-laid rope round a ship's hull when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violence of the sea.

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