cordage

• “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

• “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

• “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.

• “The coarser parts are used for cordage, which is very serviceable.”

  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics

• “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

• “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.”

  Internet Archive: 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 copious, comprehensive and satisfactory abridgment of the voyage

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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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