CORDAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cordage mean? 

• CORDAGE (noun)
  The noun CORDAGE has 2 senses:

1. the amount of wood in an area as measured in cords

2. the ropes in the rigging of a ship

  Familiarity information: CORDAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORDAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The amount of wood in an area as measured in cords

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("cordage" is a kind of...):

amount; measure; quantity (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ropes in the rigging of a ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cordage" is a kind of...):

rope (a strong line)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cordage"):

sennit (flat braided cordage that is used on ships)

 Context examples 

The second mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, and a wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And to the second:—I can hear the waves lapping against the ship, and the water rushing by. Canvas and cordage strain and masts and yards creak.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The evening breeze had sprung up, and though it was well warded off by the hill with the two peaks upon the east, the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and the idle sails to rattle to and fro.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There were many things to be brought up from the beach and stored in the outhouse—as oars, nets, sails, cordage, spars, lobster-pots, bags of ballast, and the like; and though there was abundance of assistance rendered, there being not a pair of working hands on all that shore but would have laboured hard for Mr. Peggotty, and been well paid in being asked to do it, yet she persisted, all day long, in toiling under weights that she was quite unequal to, and fagging to and fro on all sorts of unnecessary errands.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)