cordelle
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of cordelle
1785–95; < French, diminutive of corde cord
Example Sentences
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Big men, bearded and powerful, pushing up stream with the cordelle on their shoulders!
From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.
It’s because the shores were more open, so they could use the cordelle!
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Hough, Emerson
I would be gazing wide-mouthed at the cordelle men.
From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.
In return they shipped molasses, sugar, coffee, lead, and hides upon the few keel boats which crept upstream or the blundering barges which were propelled northward by means of oar, sail, and cordelle.
From The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway by Hulbert, Archer Butler
We would tie up one more night; all hands at the cordelle and the poles, we would reach Mrs. O'Fallon's by noon, in time for dinner.
From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Dillon, Mary
From this point they made a portage and cordelled their boat, and with poles and lines ascended to Snake river.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
The boat was cordelled over the rapids, and, with poles and lines, taken as far as the mouth of Kanabec river, where a camp was established.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
Sometimes the boat was "cordelled," or towed by the men walking on the shore and drawing the barge by a rope held on their shoulders.
From Stories of American Life and Adventure by Eggleston, Edward
"Very low, sir; we cordelled much of the way."
From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.
We paddled and cordelled valiantly, discussing Milk River the while.
From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.
I’ve been counting on that old black eagle, all the way up, cordelling from the mouth of the Yellowstone.”
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Hough, Emerson
They bade him good-bye at last, and started home, now rowing against the current and now cordelling along the river shore, when they grew tired of rowing.
From The Hoosier School-boy by Eggleston, Edward
The work of rowing and cordelling was hard, but they carried light and hopeful hearts.
From The Hoosier School-boy by Eggleston, Edward
With difficulty cordelling his barge around the Regent’s Park, Bill Bootle, the canal boatman, was making slow speed.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
Once in the Ohio, there was no surcease from hard work—poling, paddling, or cordelling, sometimes all three together, to climb the rushing stream.
From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Dillon, Mary
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