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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In rope-making, a wooden cone or top-shaped piece of wood placed between the strands in laying up or twisting a rope, to keep the twist well to the point at which the strands diverge, and prevent it from extending along the strands, which would produce what is called
slack twist . As the twisting proceeds, the laying-top retreats toward the untwisted part of the strands.
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The strands pass through the hollow axes of the pinions, and thence each to its own opening through the laying-top, T, fixed upon S, which completes the operation of twisting them into a rope.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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