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What does cable-laid mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cable-laid? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Comprising three ropes, each containing three strands twisted together, laid together left-handed.
  2. Twisted after the manner of a cable.
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The company makes cable-laid slings that can lift oil rig equipment of up 12,000 tonnes in weight.
A fiber cable-laid rope is composed of three strands of hawser-laid rope, twisted right-handed.
Right-hand rope must be coiled with the sun, and cable-laid rope against the sun.
Hawser-laid rope is a right-handed rope, and cable-laid is therefore left-handed.
Large ropes are distinguished into two main classes, the cable-laid and hawser-laid.
Thus, cable-laid rope is like three small common ropes laid up into one large one.

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