Associations to the word «Cordage»

Wiktionary

CORDAGE, noun. (nautical) A set of ropes and cords, especially that used for a ship's rigging.
CORDAGE, noun. (obsolete) An amount of wood measured in cords.

Dictionary definition

CORDAGE, noun. The amount of wood in an area as measured in cords.
CORDAGE, noun. The ropes in the rigging of a ship.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope