Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made of three small ropes laid up into one, as, formerly, small running rigging, shrouds, etc., or, now, cables and tow-lines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made in the manner of a hawser. Cf.
cable-laid , and seeIllust. ofcordage .
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Examples
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He had brought with him the bo'sun and the carpenter, his own mate, the bo'sun's mate and the carpenter's mate, four P. O.'s, the sergeant of Marines, a few leading stokers and half-a-dozen hands; fifty fathoms of hawser-laid four-inch white rope; six stout stakes (ash); bags, canvas, twelve (one to collect the tickets earned by each division); and one thousand eight hundred tickets, numbered from one to one thousand eight hundred.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 Various
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