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Example sentences for "unlaid"

Lexicographically close words:
unlade; unladed; unladen; unlading; unladylike; unlash; unlashed; unlatch; unlatched; unlawful
  1. A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag.

  2. Defn: The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.

  3. The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.

  4. To make a neat splice do not haul the part of the rope that has not been unlaid too close to the neck of the splice, and in tucking the strands never take a short nip but take long lays.

  5. Each is unlaid the necessary length, and they are then brought close together.

  6. This is able under proper conditions to break up the gelatinized starch into simpler substances--the dextrins--and later into a fermentable sugar called maltose.

  7. The disintegrated raw materials or gelatinized starch in the preparatory mash vat is now to be "saccharified" or converted into sugar.

  8. The Muktika Upani.sad gives a list of 108 Upani.sads.

  9. Insomnia," said I, "is a scientific quibble for unlaid memories.

  10. Passing its closed gates daily, I was always sensible of a qualm of the spirit, a daunting prescience that the stilled mansion still harbored the ghost of an unlaid secret.

  11. Unlaid eggs are a long time becoming chickens.

  12. The rope must be unlaid as far as the centre if the knot is required there, and the strands handled with great care to keep the lay in them.

  13. The strands must be unlaid about three times as much as for a short splice and married--care being taken to preserve the lay or shape of each.

  14. It is made in the same manner as the short splice, but instead of splicing the two ends together, the end of the rope is unlaid and then bent around and spliced into its own strands of the standing part, as shown in the illustration.

  15. Some gigantic landslide must have sliced the mountain off into the gorge below, and instead of a path we had been following its still unlaid phantom.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unlaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.