Cordelle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 167 anagrams from letters in cordelle (cdeellor).
1785-95; French, diminutive of corde cord
When sail and oar and setting-pole proved unavailing, the men were out and overboard, running the banks with the cordelle.
We were compelled to cordelle our boat, and sometimes lift it over the rocks for several rods.
The cordelle was a rope, often several hundred yards long, by means of which men towed boats up rapid streams.
With much ado, with poles and cordelle, we made but five miles.
Big men, bearded and powerful, pushing up stream with the cordelle on their shoulders!
When the current was especially strong, the end of the cordelle was attached to a tree and a windlass used.Ed.