cordage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   cords and ropes considered collectively, especially the ropes used in a ship's rigging

   Canvas and cordage strained as the vessel turned into the wind.

2. 2
   noun

   an amount of firewood measured in cords

   The survey recorded the woodland's usable cordage before any trees were cut.

Borrowed from French cordage, from corde ("cord or rope") + -age, a suffix forming collective nouns. Its forestry sense comes from cord as a unit for measuring stacked firewood.

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