cordage

[kawr-dij]

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noun

fiber and wire ropes, lines, hawsers, etc., taken as a whole, especially with reference to the rigging and other equipment of a vessel.

a quantity of wood measured in cords.

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Origin of cordage

First recorded in 1480–90; cord + -age

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Examples from the Web for cordage

If we can be of service to you in the matter of spare spars, cordage, or gear, you have but to say so.
The Quest of the 'Golden Hope'|Percy F. Westerman
His own position was alongside of her, secured in like manner by ends of cordage.
Overland|John William De Forest
Evidently the buccaneers did not wish to sink us, for they directed their fire principally at our spars and cordage.
The Quest of the 'Golden Hope'|Percy F. Westerman
Secure the cordage, and any other odds and ends you think useful.
His Unknown Wife|Louis Tracy

It was not only the spars and the cordage and the sails we put ashore.
Merchantmen-at-Arms|David W. Bone

British Dictionary definitions for cordage

cordage

noun

nautical the lines and rigging of a vessel

an amount of wood measured in cords

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Word Origin and History for cordage