unlay
/ʌnˈleɪ
/verb (past and past participle unlaid) [with object] Nautical
Untwist (a rope) into separate strands.A knife is helpful here to get things started, but they unlay easily once you've gotten it going....
- Hercules ropes are pre-formed, to minimize unlaying and its resultant cost during further fabrication
- This will cause the rope to unlay and to some degree distortion of the rope will occur.
Origin
Early 18th century: from un-2 (expressing reversal) + lay1.
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