WATER-LAID Definition & Meaning

water-laid

[ waw-ter-leyd, wot-er- ]

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adjective

Ropemaking.

noting a rope laid left-handed from three or four plain-laid ropes, in the making of which water was used to wet the fibers instead of the more customary oil or tallow.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of water-laid¹

First recorded in 1855–60

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The desert surface is water-laid, and each rainfall improves the surface, so a fully flooded track is good news.

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The lower part of this valley was filled with the water-laid drift of the overwash plain.

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A mass of stratified drift overlies a hummocky deposit of coarse till, but large boulders occurring here and there on top of the stratified drift show that the ice-laid and water-laid materials were not completely sorted.

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The accumulations of stratified drift are distinguished from other features in the landscape by their smoother and rounder outlines, by their habit of lying unconformably on the bedrock without reference to old erosion lines, and by a slightly different tone in the color of the vegetation covering the water-laid material.

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It is supposed that this style of rope is stronger in proportion to the number of yarns than cable or water-laid rope, which is more tightly twisted, each strand being a small rope.

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