How To Use Cordage In A Sentence
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Her innovative use of gut (intestinal skin) - now a signature material in her work - was inspired in part by Native American artifacts, from canoes to clothing and cordage.
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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.
The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis
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The cocoa-tree i \eiy ciJiniiion, which is of iiniverfal uCc, aliording them ineat, drink, oil and vinegar; and of the fibres if the bark they make them cordage; the branches cover their houfes, and they write on the leaves with a lUel Hue, and with the tree, Hiid the great bamboo cane, thev build their houfes, boats and other vclfels.
A New, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority [microform] : containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages,
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She knew every plank by name and number, the land from where it had come, which piece fitted where, how much sisal cordage had been braided and the grasslands where it was grown.
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Although the projected use of the fiber in the southern United States is for producing newsprint, a major current product from the plant is cordage, which is used for carpet pads, twine, rope, and fiber bags.
Chapter 10
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The main mast top mast was bent to the deck with cordage and sail draping across to starboard.
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At the time, there was great demand in Europe for good processed flax to make naval rope, cordage and sails.
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Before the comparatively recent introduction of synthetic fibres, we relied on natural vegetable and animal products to make our clothes, cloths, carpets, and cordage.
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“Name her not — and for an instant think not of her,” said the King, again straining the curtal-axe in his gripe, until the muscles started above his brawny arm, like cordage formed by the ivy around the limb of an oak.
The Talisman
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They had found the "spanker" of the _Pandora_ floating about, with its boom and all the cordage attached.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
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braided cordage
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Hanks of sisal fiber purchased in Elmina market, usually used for making ropes and cordage for ocean-going fishing canoes, were dyed and dried in Hippies' upstairs studios.
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On the wharves was the smell of tarred seams and cordage, -- sweltering in the sun; in the counting-rooms the clerks could barely keep the drops of moisture from their faces from falling down to blot their toilsome lines of figures on the faultless pages of the ledgers; on the Common, common men surreptitiously stretched themselves in shady corners on the grass, regardless of the police, until they should be found and ordered off; little babies in second-rate boarding-houses, where their fathers and mothers had to stay for cheapness the summer through wailed the helpless, pitiful cry of a slowly murdered infancy; and out on the blazing thoroughfares where business had to be busy, strong men were dropping down, and reporters were hovering about upon the skirts of little crowds, gathering their items; making
The Other Girls
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Squat and lean at the same time, asymmetrically limbed, string-muscled as if with lengths of cordage, dirt-caked from infancy save for casual showers, she was as unbeautiful a prototype of woman as he, with a scientist's eye, had ever gazed upon.
THE RED ONE
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Nothing else was notable on deck, save where the loose topsail had played some havoc with the rigging, and there hung, and swayed, and sang in the declining wind, a raffle of intorted cordage.
The Wrecker
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d The price listed for cordage in Placentia was per pound, not hundredweight — 1s. 4d.
The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Aouthern Avalon, 1750-1860
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The banks are charmingly wooded with acacias of many varieties, some thorned like the fabled Zakkum, others parachute-shaped, and planted in impenetrable thickets: huge white creepers, snake-shaped, enclasp giant trees, or connect with their cordage the higher boughs, or depend like cables from the lower branches to the ground.
First footsteps in East Africa
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They likewise make another sort of cordage, which is flat, and exceedingly strong, and used principally in lashing the roofing of their houses, or whatever they wish to fasten tight together.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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Footropes still to be added to the foremast topsail, and some cordage here and there to be sorted out.
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These reeds are then attached to each other by using strings of coarse cordage obtained from the makalani palm leaf fiber, tree bark or swamp grass which are individually knotted to the reeds.
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The operation lasted two hours, and then not only the case, with its valve, its springs, its brasswork, lay on the ground, but the net, that is to say a considerable quantity of ropes and cordage, and the circle and the anchor.
The Mysterious Island
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Courier, entitled "Confederate Flax," in which it is stated that Mr.D. Ewart, of Florida, had presented for exhibition "specimens of scutched fibre, and of cordage and twine of different sizes, made from the very common plant familiarly known as bear-grass, or Adam's needles.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Where the SPEEDWELL lay while being "refitted" has not been ascertained, though presumably at Delfshaven, whence she sailed, though possibly at one of the neighboring larger ports, where her new masts and cordage could be "set up" to best advantage.
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
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(for groundrope) (pour bourrelet) (pare relinga da promos) rope filin, cordage cabo runnage longueur par unit de poids longitud por unidad da peso
Chapter 5
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They alfo manufadture another fort of cordage, which is flat, and extremely fl: rong, and is prin - cipally ufed for the purpofe of lalhing the roofs of their houfes.
A voyage to the Pacific Ocean [microform] : undertaken by command of His Majesty for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, being a cop
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From the galliot, our navigators got a small quantity of pitch, tar, cordage, and twine, and a hundred and forty skins of flour, containing 13,782 lbs. English.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
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Stone tools are virtually indestructible, whereas organic materials - bone, antler, wood, leather, sinews, cordage, basketry, featherwork, etc. - decay under most normal conditions.
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One was the use of stinging nettle fibres for cordage.
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Hemp, or _Cannabis sativa_, from which we possibly derive the modern term canvas, was known to the ancients and used by them for rope and cordage and occasionally for cloth.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
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It's nice to have a few yards of paracord in your pocket, but all kinds of vegetation can be pressed into service to make ropes and cordage.
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The fibrous rind is not less useful; it is manufactured into a kind of cordage, mats and floor-cloths.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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Jake, knowing me more than anyone, knew this, and had make a two-person swing out of wood and cordage.
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'His voice namely incredibly very gentle and soft, mention ugg boots life person's pendency namely a cordage.
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He put a stock of food and water aboard, made certain the boat had mast, cordage, sail, and backstaff, then sent the prisoners into it.
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The coarser parts are used for cordage, which is very serviceable.
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
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The trade went in both directions: there was already a surplus of cordage and sailcloth that was traded on to Constantinople while there was a booming import-export business to Riga.
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The main mast top mast was bent to the deck with cordage and sail draping across to starboard.
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Such knowledge goes far beyond foodstuffs to include plants and plant-parts useful for dyes and for cordage and textile manufacture, as well as a vast array of medicinal leaves, bark, roots, stems, and berries.
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We had also made a quantity of string, or what sailors call sennit, which, twisted together, would serve as cordage for the vessel.
The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
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It can be spun into a filament that is useful for making rope, webbing and cordage.
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This facility was a major producer of rope and cordage for the whole of the Royal Navy until March 1991, when all production ceased because of bomb damage.
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He picked out some seeds and cordage, rope made by twisting plant fibers together.
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From impressions of fiber cordage on fired clay, archaeologists have discovered evidence of string and of rope-making technology in Europe that dates back 28,000 years.
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Indians showed them how to make a kind of cordage, and their shirts and bedding were sewn together into sails.
French Pathfinders in North America
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They calked the seams with the long moss which hung in profusion from the neighboring trees; the pines supplied them with pitch; the Indians made for them a kind of cordage; and for sails they sewed together their shirts and bedding.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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a slick for that purpose, a use to which our nails were afterwards applied with great advantage, and through these holes a kind of plaited cordage is passed, so as to hold the planks strongly together: The seams are caulked with dried rushes, and the whole outside of the vessel is paid with a gummy juice, which some of their trees produce in great plenty, and which is a very good succedaneum for pitch.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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The effect of this speech, as the orator, pale, exhausted, shattered, unstrung, with nerves like the torn cordage of a ship that has outridden the tempest, descended from the tribune, baffles all description.
Edmond Dantès
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Usually one of these dead-eyes is held by an iron strap to the point where it is required to fix and strain the cordage, which is ordinarily a shroud.
Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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They cultivated cotton and wound it for cordage and twisted it into yarn for making garments.
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The Paiute deadfall uses a piece of cordage and a catch stick.
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The researchers have also recovered fragments of knotted "cordage" - woven seagrass - that might have been used to make fishing nets.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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Hemp for cordage and sails was an early crop in the colonies, and one useful for more than warship construction.
