cordage en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɔːdɪdʒ/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from French cordage.
Meanings
- (uncountable) Cord (of any type) when viewed as a mass or commodity.
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(countable, uncountable) A set of ropes and cords, especially that used for a ship's rigging.
Boatswain Marsham fell to work overhauling the bolts of sail-cloth and the hanks of cordage and the coils of rope, till he had found a new foresail and laid it under the hatch, and had placed great ropes and such cordage as headlines and marlines and sennets so that a man could lay hands on them in a time of haste and confusion.
1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8:[…] as the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang […]
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:So Juan stood, bewildered on the deck: / The wind sung, cordage strained, and sailors swore […]
1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza 13:A lone river wind sighed in the cordage of the ship.
1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 151:
- (countable, obsolete, uncountable) An amount of wood measured in cords.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cordages | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Holonyms
rigging (a set of ropes used on a ship)
Hyponyms
cringle (a set of ropes used on a ship) · downhaul (a set of ropes used on a ship) · outhaul (a set of ropes used on a ship) · footrope (a set of ropes used on a ship) · buntline (a set of ropes used on a ship) · shroud (a set of ropes used on a ship) · clewline (a set of ropes used on a ship) · sheet (a set of ropes used on a ship) · horse (a set of ropes used on a ship) · cunningham (a set of ropes used on a ship) · guy (a set of ropes used on a ship) · tack (a set of ropes used on a ship) · stay (a set of ropes used on a ship) · halyard (a set of ropes used on a ship) · lift (a set of ropes used on a ship)
Translations (16)
es cordaje (set of ropes and cords) · fr cordage (set of ropes and cords) · it cordame (set of ropes and cords) · ca cordam (set of ropes and cords) · tr selviçe (set of ropes and cords) · sv tågverk (set of ropes and cords) · pt cordagem (set of ropes and cords) · io kordagaro (set of ropes and cords) · pt cordame (set of ropes and cords) · sv tågvirke (set of ropes and cords) · ca cordatge (set of ropes and cords) · fi köysistö (set of ropes and cords) · ru сна́сти (set of ropes and cords) · he חֲבָלִים (set of ropes and cords) · bg такелаж (set of ropes and cords) · ru такела́ж (set of ropes and cords)