In nautical, colchar is to join the strings of a rope twisting with each other. The wires are usually twisted to the third, that is to say that by the twist the cords that compose them lose the third part of its length; others are between the third and the fourth, and the loops for the fourth.
Quilt It is the twisting of cables of all kinds. It is also each of the twisting turns of a cable. The twist breaks more or less the fibers that compose it, alters its strength and the strength of a twisted wire is evaluated in the sixth part of its elements separately. Types
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