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cablelaid

cablelaid is the alternative form of cable-laid.

Meaning of cable-laid

Adjective

cable-laid (not comparable)

  1. Consisting of three or four hawser-laid ropes twisted together left-handed (turning in an anticlockwise direction).
  2. Twisted after the manner of a cable.
    • a cable-laid gold chain

Questions about cablelaid

What is cablelaid the alternative form of?
Cablelaid is the alternative form of cable-laid.

Words near cablelaid in the dictionary

  1. Cablegate
  2. cablegram
  3. cablegrammed
  4. cablegramming
  5. cablegrams
  6. cablelaid
  7. cableless
  8. cablelike
  9. cableman
  10. cablemen
  11. cabler

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