Water-laid
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 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. not-comparable
"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;"
- 2 Deposited by a stream, river, or other body of water; alluvial. not-comparable
"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."
- 3 Manufactured by suspending material in water and then draining the water away through a net, screen, or similar device. not-comparable
"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, […]"
Example
More examples"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;"
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