Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordelled
Literary usage of Cordelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1838 The men of the Hudson's Bay Company cordelled several batteaux down this
... 1844 [They] employed only twenty cordelled boats, carrying one hundred ..."
2. Journal of a Fur-trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri: 1812-1813 by John C. Luttig (1920)
"... Boat took 5 hunters to the Island and we continued our Route passed Ponca
River, cordelled on the South Side along the Hills till Dinner, the Boat came ..."
3. Oregon and California in 1848 by Jessy Quinn Thornton (1864)
"At the lower one only half the goods are taken out, and the boats are cordelled
up half a mile. The boatmen then secure the goods, upon their backs, ..."
4. History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River: Life and by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1903)
"When the boat was being cordelled there stood at the bow, near where the bridle
... There were many places where the keelboat could not be cordelled at all, ..."
5. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (1998)
"... so much as to increase the current beyond the capacity of an ordinary steamer
to stem it. To get up these rapids, steamers must be cordelled; that is, ..."
6. The American Fur Trade of the Far West: A History of the Pioneer Trading by Hiram Martin Chittenden (1901)
"It was he who cordelled the keelboat up the long course of the Missouri and
performed the arduous labors connected with the navigation of that most stubborn ..."
7. A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1917)
"... at the mouth of the Musselshell, to escape the rocky rapids near this point
over which the boats must be warped or cordelled laboriously. ..."
8. The Daring Adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont, Among Buffaloes, Grizzlies by John Charles Frémont (1888)
"Crossing to the right bank, we cordelled the boat along the shore, there being
no longer any use of the paddles, and put into a little bay below the upper ..."
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