Definitions for cordages

cordages cord·age

Spelling: [kawr-dij]
IPA: /ˈkɔr dɪdʒ/

Cordages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 455 anagrams from letters in cordages (acdegors).

Definitions for cordages

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 cordages

First recorded in 1480-90; cord + -age

Examples for cordages

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for cordages
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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