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cable-laid

adjective

  1. (of a rope) made of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

At that time there were but eighty-seven nautical miles of submarine cable laid, while now there are nearly 200,000 statute miles.

Large ropes are distinguished into two main classes, the cable-laid and hawser-laid.

Very soon there would even be a telegraphic cable laid to the mainland.

Fayal is connected with Waterville, in Ireland, by a cable laid in 1901.

He wants a third cable laid, and two complete lines from here to New York, before he will be satisfied.

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