cable-laid
English
Etymology
cable + laid
Adjective
cable-laid (not comparable)
- (nautical, of rope) Made up of 3 or 4 hawser-laid ropes twisted together left-handed (turning in an anticlockwise direction).
- Twisted after the manner of a cable.
- a cable-laid gold chain
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)
Coordinate terms
- hawser-laid
- plain-laid
Further reading
Anagrams
- cebadilla