Cable-laid rope is composed of nine strands, and is made by first laying up three ropes of three strands each with the sun, and then laying the three ropes together into one, against the sun.
Hawser-laid rope is a right-handed rope, and cable-laid is therefore left-handed.
Thus, cable-laid rope is like three small common ropes laid up into one large one.
Right-hand rope must be coiled with the sun, and cable-laid rope against the sun.
Right-hand rope, a rope which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is, in the same direction as plain-laid rope.
Defn: Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope.
The act of passing four or five turns of a large cable-laid rope round a ship's hull when it is apprehended that she is not strong enough to resist the violence of the sea.
Is a rope of which each strand is a hawser-laid rope.
It is supposed that this style of rope is stronger in proportion to the number of yarns than cable or water-laid rope, which is more tightly twisted, each strand being a small rope.
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