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Definition: CABLELAID

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.[Websters]
2. Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.[Websters]
3. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb cablelaidly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(cablelaidly)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective cablelaid.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Cablelaid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Definition: CABLELAID

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Composed of three three-stranded ropes, or hawsers, twisted together to form a cable.[Websters]
2. Twisted after the manner of a cable; as, a cable-laid gold chain.[Websters]
3. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb cablelaidly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(cablelaidly)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective cablelaid.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "CABLELAID" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)