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Definition of Cordelles
1. cordelle [v] - See also: cordelle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordelles
Literary usage of Cordelles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Description géologique et minéralogique du département de la Loire by Louis Emmanuel Gruner (1857)
"A la tour du Verdier, entre cordelles et la Loire, le schiste alterne même a'ec le
... au haut de la butte de cordelles, entre le bourg de ce nom et le ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"... of the Arkansa afford, as on the Mississippi, great facilities to navigation,
either in propelling the boat by poles, or towing with the cordelles. ..."
3. Dictionnaire historique de l'ancien langage françois, ou, Glossaire de la by M. de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Léopold Favre, Léon Louis Pajot, Georges Jean Mouchet (1877)
"... nom de Frères de cordele , et de là on nomma aussi cordelles les religieuses
cordelières. On disoit : « Le moustier des Cordel- « les, delez S1 Clout, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"In accordance. CORDE. To accord ; to agree. (А~Щ Hur hart to hym can corde, For
to have hym to hur lord«. 3IS. Cantab, ft. ii. Я, f. B. cordelles. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"They were propelled by sails, or oars, or setting-poles, or cordelles, as occasion
might demand or allow. Then there were bateaux and skiffs of ..."
6. A History of the Dakota Or Sioux Indians: From Their Earliest Traditions and by Doane Robinson (1904)
"Besides the usual equipment of paddles, poles, cordelles, sails, etc., each of
these boats was equipped with a set of paddle wheels operated by hand power. ..."
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