water-laid

water-laid
/waw"teuhr layd', wot"euhr-/, adj. 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.
[1855-60]

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