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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Nautical, formed of three strands of plain-laid, or ordinary rope.
  • Twisted after the manner of a cable: as, a cable-laid gold chain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Naut.) Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.
  • adjective Twisted after the manner of a cable.

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