What is "laid rope"

Usage examples of "laid rope".

He got out henequen cable-laid rope, an assortment of ply and yarn goods, and some superlative slender abaca fiber rope.

The problem eventually proved to be getting the oily old hawser-laid rope to go through the descendure to allow him to move at all.

That is, Z-spun woolen, worsted, and hemp are S-plied, like the yarn and strands of plain-laid rope.

S-spun linen is Z-plied, like the yarn and strands of reverse-laid rope.