CORDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corded mean? 

• CORDED (adjective)
  The adjective CORDED has 1 sense:

1. of textiles; having parallel raised lines

  Familiarity information: CORDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of textiles; having parallel raised lines

Synonyms:

corded; twilled

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

 Context examples 

His cowl was thrown back upon his shoulders, and his gown, unfastened at the top, disclosed a round, sinewy neck, ruddy and corded like the bark of the fir.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I looked down; my clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs; the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Its body is totally covered with a felted and corded coat, which is 8 to 11 inches long, and always white.

(Komondor, NCI Thesaurus)

The box was corded, the card nailed on.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her gaze rested for a moment on the muscular neck, heavy corded, almost bull-like, bronzed by the sun, spilling over with rugged health and strength.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All that may be done is already carried out, for we have stuffed the gape with sails and corded it without and within.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A pearl necklace I had given you lay untouched in its little casket; your trunks were left corded and locked as they had been prepared for the bridal tour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But the hand which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of a mid-London morning, lying half shut on the bedclothes, was lean, corded, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Now, with his thick and somewhat bowed legs stretched in front of the blaze, his green jerkin thrown open, and a great quart pot held in his corded fist, he looked the picture of comfort and of good-fellowship.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a light in the porter's lodge: when we reached it, we found the porter's wife just kindling her fire: my trunk, which had been carried down the evening before, stood corded at the door.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)