cable-laid

English

Etymology

cable +‎ laid

Adjective

cable-laid (not comparable)

  1. Comprising three ropes, each containing three strands twisted together, laid together left-handed.
  2. Twisted after the manner of a cable.
    a cable-laid gold chain
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cable-laid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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