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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.