water-laid

water-laid (not comparable)

1. (rope-making) Consisting of three or more hawser-laid ropes twisted together in the opposite direction from that in which the hawser-laid ropes are twisted; cable-laid.
   • 1903, Morgan Robertson, “The Splicing of Rope”, in The Rudder, volume 14, page 41:

     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;

   • 1922, United States Tariff Commission, Tariff Information:

     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.

   • 1951, Great Britain. Admiralty, Manual of Seamanship, page 86:

     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.

2. (geology) Deposited by a stream, river, or other body of water; alluvial.
   • 1963, Israel Gregory Sohn, Raymond Elliot Peck, Theriosynoecum Wyomingense:

     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.

   • 1964, Geological Survey Water-supply Paper, page 33:

     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."

   • 1975, Glenn R. Scott, Richard B. Taylor, Post-Paleocene Teritar Rocks and Quaternary Volcanic Ash of the Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado:

     Mine workings show that the upper part of this fill is made up of flows, stratified tuff, breccia, and water-laid debris.

3. (materials engineering) Manufactured by suspending material in water and then draining the water away through a net, screen, or similar device.
   • 1947, Gustave L. Easterberg, Roger A. MacArthur, “2422345: Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement Products”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 452:

     A continuous method of making hydraulic cement products comprising forming a plurality of water-laid sheets of hydraulic cement, having linear fibers therein which are oriented longitudinally of the surface of said sheets, […]

   • 1974, Paper Technology - Volume 15, page 347:

     The improved sheet formation of foam-laid paper is shown visually in Fig. 2 where softwood kraft handsheets, water-laid and foam-laid are shown for comparison.

   • 1990, The Environmental Challenge of the 1990s, page 300:

     With this fiber, we then formed a series of air-laid and water-laid handsheets varying the temperature of the forming or rewetting water, the forming substrate, and, because press-dry effectiveness has been shown to vary with sheet weight, the grammage.