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cable-laid

adjective

Meaning

  1. 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.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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