Water-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;

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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.

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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.

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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.

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