Definitions for cordage

cordage cord·age

Spelling: [kawr-dij]
IPA: /ˈkɔr dɪdʒ/

Cordage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in cordage (acdegor).

Definitions for cordage

noun

  1. fiber and wire ropes, lines, hawsers, etc., taken as a whole, especially with reference to the rigging and other equipment of a vessel.
  2. a quantity of wood measured in cords.

Origin of cordage

First recorded in 1480-90; cord + -age

Examples for cordage

Such noise as it has is elemental, justifiable, like a ship's cordage in a gale.

The nest was built in a block where some of the cordage runs.

In the rope-walks of the town, the cordage for the gallant Yankee ships was spun.

We only kept one sabre, in case we had to cut some cordage or some piece of wood.

I suppose that you must be very short of timber, cordage, and ship stores?

There is also plenty of hemp for cordage, and tar could be made in abundance.

The epidermis of the leaves furnishes the strings for hammocks and all kinds of cordage.

This is affected by heat and wet, but not p. 194so much, as cordage is.

I will procure, if commissioned, any quantity of sailcloth and cordage.

The movements in Copper and cordage Trust stocks are purely speculative.

Word Value for cordage
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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