cable-laid

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Etymology

cable +‎ laid

Adjective

cable-laid (not comparable)

  1. (nautical, of rope) Made up of 3 or 4 hawser-laid ropes twisted together left-handed (turning in an anticlockwise direction).
  2. Twisted after the manner of a cable.
    a cable-laid gold chain
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