cable-laid

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Adjective

cable-laid (not comparable)

  1. (nautical, of rope) Consisting of three or four hawser-laid ropes twisted together left-handed (turning in an anticlockwise direction).
  2. Twisted after the manner of a cable.[1]
    a cable-laid gold chain

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References

  1. ^ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

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