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I am dying of thirst, and not a shred of dried fish or jerked beef has gone into my old mouth––” Yes there has, Doña Pancha, for just then a piece of hawser-laid rope––rather dry, perhaps, for mastication––was placed across your crying mouth that you might bite upon, if you would only stop your old tongue.

Is a rope of which each strand is a hawser-laid rope.

In rope-making the cable varies from 100 to 115 fathoms; cablet, 120 fathoms; hawser-laid, 130 fathoms, as determined by the admiralty in 1830.

Hawser-laid ropes are simple three-strand ropes, and range up to the same size as cablets, as from 3⁄4 to 9 inches.

The combination in the larger cordage, also known as hawser-laid.