[f. STRAND v.2 and sb.4 + -ED.]
1. Of a rope: Having one or more strands broken.
1815. Falconer’s Dict. Marine (ed. Burney), Stranded,… speaking of a cable or rope, signifies that one of its strands is broken.
1823. W. Scoresby, Jrnl., 311. Our movements … were effected by means of a stranded (or partly broken) rope.
1888. W. E. Nicholson, Gloss. Coal Trade Northumb. & Durh. (E.D.D.).
2. Composed of (a specified number of) strands.
1875. Bedford, Sailor’s Pocket Bk., x. 313. A four-stranded rope is about one-fifth weaker than a three-stranded one.
3. Composed of strands of wire (STRAND sb.4 1 b).
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIII. 114. The stranded form [of submarine cable] was suggested by Prof. W. Thomson at a meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1854.
1899. J. Pennell, in Fortn. Rev., LXV. 120. In the Bowden brake the power is applied by a coiled wire, with a stranded wire inside it.
1903. Kelsey, Contin. Current Dynamos, 199. A stranded conductor is used on account of the immunity thereby obtained from eddy currents.
