Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rope-making) Consisting of three or more hawser-laid ropes twisted together in the opposite direction from that in which the hawser-laid ropes are twisted; cable-laid..
In these days of steel hawsers and towing machines, water-laid rope is going out of fashion, and the writer being one of the men that never saw this splice made does not hope to now;
Rope may be divided into three main classes, according to the manner in which the strands are laid: (1) Plain-laid rope, composed of three strands; (2) shroud-laid rope, composed of four or six strands with a core or heart running through the center: and (3) cable-laid rope, hawser-laid or water-laid, composed of three or four plain-laid ropes twisted together.
Three hawser-laid ropes, each of 120 fathoms, laid up together in the opposite direction to that of their own lay will form a "cable-laid" or "water-laid rope", 100 fathoms in length.
This is 25 feet of light-gray thinly bedded and cross-bedded water-laid tuff, which in turn overlies a poorly indurated ash-flow sheet, 125 feet thick.
In a ravine about a quarter of a mile south of Cairn Point, Bootlegger Cove Clay extends from the beach to a level 126 feet above it (Miller and Dobrovolny, 1959, p. 39(; the horizontally bedded clay is overlain by hard, stony sand interpreted by the writers as water-laid "till."
Mine workings show that the upper part of this fill is made up of flows, stratified tuff, breccia, and water-laid debris.
A continuous method of making hydraulic cement products comprising forming a plurality of water-laid sheets of hydraulic cement, having linear fibers therein which are oriented longitudinally of the surface of said sheets, […]
The improved sheet formation of foam-laid paper is shown visually in Fig. 2 where softwood kraft handsheets, water-laid and foam-laid are shown for comparison.
Use water-laid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Water-laid means (rope-making) Consisting of three or more hawser-laid ropes twisted together in the opposite direction from that in which the hawser-laid ropes are twisted; cable-laid..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In these days of steel hawsers and towing machines, water-laid rope is going out of fashion, and the writer being one of the men that never saw this splice made does not hope to now;
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.