water-laid

Example Sentences

• "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."