The researchers have also recovered fragments of knotted "cordage" - woven seagrass - that might have been used to make fishing nets. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
The coarser parts are used for cordage, which is very serviceable. From Wordnik.com. [Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics] Reference
The knotted "cordage" could have been used to make nets and lines. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
The fibrous rind is not less useful; it is manufactured into a kind of cordage, mats and floor-cloths. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Even then he left on board much that might be useful in case of emergency, such as cordage, sails, and clothing that had belonged to the sailors. From Wordnik.com. [The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis] Reference
Ned pointed to the hundreds of yards of net cordage. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
How the wind did howl and screech through our cordage!. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Behind rises shouting of men and whistling of cordage. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
One-third of these furnish useful fibers for cordage and fabrics. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
There it is shredded and made into cordage, coarse cloth, or paper. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Break the cordage which fastens me to it, and I drift aimless, hopelessly. '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
What with the trunks and the cordage to keep them staid, our wagon looked like. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Its commercial value is about double that of ordinary first-class cordage hemp. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Such noise as it has is elemental, justifiable, like a ship's cordage in a gale. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
We only kept one sabre, in case we had to cut some cordage or some piece of wood. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Hulks of boats and masts and cordage and docks and warehouses in the front, with muddy streets. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
The manila hemp is the most prominent, of which coarse cloth is woven, besides the valuable cordage. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
Here and there where the cordage net was out of place they pulled down the bag and adjusted the rigging. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Why engirdle its waist in warmth and cordage, and expose its feet to every storm and frost, to mud and snow?. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
'Prepare without delay a supply of taffeta and cordage, and you shall see one of the most astonishing things in the world.'. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The space for walking, is encumbered with coils of cordage, and the empty water-barrels are all taken possession of for seats. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
In spite of its name, it is not a grass but a flowering plant whose stalk has a tough fibre useful in making cordage and paper. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The balloon was already old -- more than a year old -- the canvas weakened and in many places rent and patched, the cordage frail. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
Its leaves are used for leaven, its bark furnishes indistructible cordage; and the bees form their hives in the cavities of its trunk. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
One could hear the straining of cordage, the creak of masts, the flap of the sails, all the noises peculiar to shipping riding at anchor. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
A vast spider's web seemed to spread its tender cordage round each household, for the crippling of every winged creature within its radius. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Flags flew out from end to end, blazoning in wild profusion along the yards and up the mast, gambolling with the cordage and the mighty sail. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
At last the mainmast went by the board, carrying with its ruin and tangle of sails, spars and cordage, six of the crew into the terrible billows. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
The wood pulp of Norway and the United States is slowly displacing it, and in time esparto will be but little used except for making cordage or gunny cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
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