Wiktionary
cable-laid
a. 1 Comprising three ropes, each containing three strands twisted together, laid together left-handed. 2 Twisted after the manner of a cable.
Usage examples of "cable-laid".
But surely my dear Stephen, you must be aware, after all this time at sea, that a hawser is cable-laid, not hawser-laid?
You will have to sail up to the Downs, eating the bread of affliction off your cable-laid baubles, and wetting it with the tears of misery.