cordage
nounUK /ˈkɔːdɪdʒ/
Etymology Borrowed from French cordage.
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Cord (of any type) when viewed as a mass or commodity.
- So Juan stood, bewildered on the deck: / The wind sung, cordage strained, and sailors swore […]1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza 13:
- […] as the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
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- Boatswain Marsham fell to work overhauling the bolts of sail-cloth and the hanks of cordage and the coils of rope, till he had found a new foresail and laid it under the hatch, and had placed great ropes and such cordage as headlines and marlines and sennets so that a man could lay hands on them in a time of haste and confusion.1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8:
- A lone river wind sighed in the cordage of the ship.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 151:
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Obsolete An amount of wood measured in cords.