cord

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a line made of twisted fibers or threads

   The bundle was tied with a cord.

2. 2
   noun

   a light insulated conductor for household use

   I looked for a place to plug in my power cord.

3. 3
   noun

   a unit of amount of wood cut for burning

   We bought a cord of firewood before the winter.

4. 4
   verb

   to stack in cords

   Cord firewood.

From Middle English corde, from Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH- (“bowels, intestines”)). Doublet of chord and cuerda. More at yarn and hernia.

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