This fibre is worth twice as much as first-class cordage hemp.
A little cordage is made; some straw or split-bamboo hats are fashioned and shipped; in some provinces split-cane and Neto hats and straw mats are made.
These persons receive tribute of him every year in cordage and other produce of the country.
These islands make muchcordage of palm trees, which they call cayro (coir).
Once more, her bows dancing, her cordage rattling, her sails flapping noisily, the schooner came about.
The near sight of the tall masts, and of the maze of cordage that hung nearly above their heads, however, prevented the change from being noted.
On the other hand, tongues were loud and clamorous among the cordage of la Fontange.
A hook of sufficient size was soon produced, and a line was quietly provided from some of the small cordage that still remained about the masts.
The models of glass, which are seen representing the machinery of a ship, are not more exact or just in their lines than were the cordage and spars of this brigantine.
He wrote sonnets prettily, and had some ideas of the new philosophy which was just beginning to dawn upon the world; but the cordage of his ship, and the lines of a mathematical problem, equally presented labyrinths he had never threaded.
The Americans had given up their unseaworthy schooners, and had a fleet of eight square-rigged vessels nearly ready, but still lacking the cordage and guns for the three new craft.
The sailors got out additional sails, clewed up cordage and rigging, and put the ship in order for a fast run.
Bright colored signal-lights blazed on the decks, and the dark, slender cordage stood out against the brilliant red and green fires that flickered strangely upon the dark wooded banks of the river.
Nor does the utility of cordage end with its application to the purposes for which it was originally designed.
The principle on which large cordage is laid, or closed, is the same, although some part of the machinery is different.
The component parts of cordage are called strands; and the operation of uniting them with a permanent twist, is called laying, when applied to small ropes, and closing, when applied to cables or other large ropes.
Flax is still more generally cultivated than hemp; but its chief application is to the manufacture of cloth, as it does not answer well for any cordage larger than a bed-cord.
We only know, in general, that cordage was in considerable use among the nations of antiquity, especially among the Greeks and Romans, who probably learned its application to rigging vessels from the Phoenicians.
Rope-making is a manufacture of general utility, as cordage of some kind is used more or less in every family in all civilized communities; nor are there many trades capable of being carried on, with convenience, without it.
But the tent, though swaying and threatening to break from its moorings, had been true to us through what we supposed to be the worst of the tempest, and we began to put some confidence in the cordage and picket-pins.
As for the guy-ropes and those that tied the tent at the sides, all this creaking, loosening cordage proved how little we could count upon its stability.
Though the ropes stretched and cracked like cordage at sea, and the canvas flapped like loosened sails, we did not go down.
Its outward rind is green and two fingers thick: it is composed of filaments of which they make cordage for their boats.
That earliest man used cordage of some kind and by his ingenuity succeeded in tying the material together, is indisputable, for the most ancient carvings and decorations of prehistoric man show knots in several forms.
The Filipino cannot vote, and thecordage manufacturer in the United States can.
They furnish the longest and strongest cordage fibre in the world.
Here, besides wet and dry docks, there were timber yards, a foundry and cordageworks for supplying the ships' hardware and a bakery and saltings for their provisioning.
The second mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, and a wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro.
A dreary hull, with shattered mast, And sails of strangest guise, And cordage fluttering in the blast, Now meets their wondering eyes.
But it is well known, that there is no better cordage than what is made in the king's yards.
Davenport enjoyed my amazement, and led me through a darksome, foot-wide passage above the stage, through that wilderness of cordage to the machinists' gallery.
He cursed them, and they taunted him for his stolen tallow and canvas, and bade him stop hammering the King’s arrow out of copper bolts and untwisting the coloured strand that marked his cordage as filched from the King’s dockyards.
He shuddered, strong-minded though he was, at the idea of having to literally hang in the air with the prospect of a terrific drop to earth should the thin cordage of the netting give way.
Held by the raffle of cordage for'ard the lugger swung round broadside on to the submarine.
They had a manufactory where they made cordage of a sort of nequen, which is like carded flax; the cord was beautiful and stronger than that of Spain, and their cotton canvas was excellent.
Amongst these are large arums that send down aerial roots, tough and strong, and universally used instead of cordage by the natives.
We got on board from her some articles of provisions, and some sails and cordage to replace the wear and tear of the late gales we had passed through, and made a brilliant bonfire of her at about ten P.
We received on board from her, however, some cordage and paints; and Captain Brown was civil enough to send me on board, with his compliments, some bottles of port wine and a box of excellent cigars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cordage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
