cordage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːdɪdʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]cordage (countable and uncountable, plural cordages)
- (uncountable) Cord (of any type) when viewed as a mass or commodity.
- (nautical) A set of ropes and cords, especially that used for a ship's rigging.
- 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza 13:
- So Juan stood, bewildered on the deck: / The wind sung, cordage strained, and sailors swore […]
- 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:
- […] 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 […]
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 151:
- A lone river wind sighed in the cordage of the ship.
- (obsolete) An amount of wood measured in cords.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (a set of ropes used on a ship): buntline, clewline, cringle, cunningham, downhaul, footrope, guy, halyard, horse, lift, outhaul, sheet, shroud, stay, tack
Holonyms
[edit]- (a set of ropes used on a ship): rigging
Translations
[edit]set of ropes and cords
French
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Noun
[edit]cordage m (plural cordages)
- rope (especially, for a vessel)
Further reading
[edit]- “cordage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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