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cordage|ˈkɔːdɪdʒ|
[app. a. F. cordage in same sense, f. corde cord: see -age. Cf. also It. cordaggi pl. ‘all manner of cordage, tacklings or ropes for ships’ (Florio).]
1. Cords or ropes collectively or in the mass, esp. the ropes in the rigging of a ship.
1598Barret Theor. Warres v. iii. 135 Cordage of sundry sorts. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 16 To make sailes and cordage for the furnishing of shipping. 1634Ford P. Warbeck v. iii, To brave the cordage Of a tough halter. a1643W. Cartwright Lady Errant iv. i, Wee'l give our hair for Cordage, and our finest Linnen for Sails. 1791Hamilton tr. Berthollet's Dyeing I. i. ii. i. 150 From the strongest cordage, to the finest kind of thread. 1847Illust. Lond. News 10 July 30/1 Amidst the cordage and silk of the balloon. 1887Stevenson Underwoods i. xvi. 37 The seaman hears Once more the cordage rattle.
b. transf.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxviii. 110 Grete ryueles and fromples, that putte oute the beaulte of the playsaunte vysage, that she sheweth all wyth cordage, aswelle in the nek as aboute the temples. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 60 What cordage first they make and tackling sure. 1847Longfellow Ev. ii. iii. 23 A cluster of trees with tangled cordage of grape-vines. 1857Dickens Lett. 28 Jan., His knitted brows now turning into cordage.
c. fig.
1649Lovelace Poems 307 Dragg'd on still By the weake Cordage of your untwin'd will. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. iii, The cordage of his life had been so strained and torn.
†2. The action of cording or tying cords. rare.
1616T. Adams Sacr. Thankf. 28 This mans whole life is spent in tying of cords: his profession is cordage. |