cordelle
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of cordelle
1785–95; < French, diminutive of corde cord
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It’s because the shores were more open, so they could use the cordelle!
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
Farther up the stream she thought she could discern the party in the yawl, striving to reach shore with the cumbersome cordelle.
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable
Big men, bearded and powerful, pushing up stream with the cordelle on their shoulders!
From The River and I by John G. Neihardt
To aid them in these exigencies, the cordelle is employed.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
The former is much in the shape of a canal boat, long, slim-built, sharp at each end, and propelled by setting poles and the cordelle or long rope.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
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 William Henry Carman Folsom
"Very low, sir; we cordelled much of the way."
From The River and I by John G. Neihardt
The next morning early we entered the picturesque Dalles of the St. Croix, then cordelled our boat over Baker's falls, and landed at the village of St. Croix Falls.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
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 Edward Eggleston
Crossing to the right bank, we cordelled the boat along the shore, there being no longer any use of the paddles, and put into a little bay below the upper rapids.
From The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources by John Charles Frémont
We had little heart for cordelling, and no paddling could make headway against that gale.
From The River and I by John G. Neihardt
The work of rowing and cordelling was hard, but they carried light and hopeful hearts.
From The Hoosier School-boy by Edward Eggleston
It is not, however, a proceeding I should advise to be undertaken by one who lacks the strength and experience necessary for poling and cordelling.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet
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 Mary Dillon
In cordelling, one sits in the skiff and steers, while the other walks on the shore, drawing the boat by a rope over the shoulders.
From The Hoosier School-boy by Edward Eggleston
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