Cordage

Examples

• Pine tar is the kind best suited for cordage, the yellow, longleaf, or Georgia pine holding the first rank in the United States for tar making. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The coarse yarn obtained from it is called coir, and it is also used for cordage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The second mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, and a wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There is the wire rope to consider, a kind of cordage now largely used in many industries, in which it has superseded hemp ropes and chains. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All the ancient civilized peoples used ropes and cordage, made from such flexible materials as their countries afforded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The development of the self-binding reaper on our western grain-fields has opened a gold mine for Sisal cordage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They long made use of cordage twisted from cotton and other fibers, or formed from the inner bark of various trees and the roots of others, and from the hairs, skins and sinews of animals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When men began to move boats by sails, ropes of some kind must have been needed, and the early ships no doubt demanded long and strong cordage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As above said, it is indispensable to protect cordage exposed to the effects of moisture, except in the case of coir ropes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The emigrants embarked by hundreds, and unfurling their sails with rude hands, made strange havoc of buoy and cordage. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typist: Shirley