cable-laid rope
cable-laid rope
A compound-laid rope consisting of several ropes or several layers of strands laid together into one rope, as, for instance, 6 by 6 by 7.
A rope in which both the fibers forming the strands and the strands themselves are twisted to the left.
Wire cable made of several ropes twisted together; strands of hawser-laid rope, twisted right-handed together without limitation as to the number of strands or direction of twist. A fiber cable-laid rope is composed of three strands of hawser-laid rope, twisted right-handed.