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Definition of Cordelle
1. n. A twisted cord; a tassel.
Definition of Cordelle
1. Noun. A twisted cord; a tassel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cordelle
1. to tow a boat with a cordelle (a towrope) [v -DELLED, -DELLING, -DELLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordelle
Literary usage of Cordelle
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)
"1833 With the help of setting-polos, and at times the aid of a cordelle, wo
stemmed the current.—' Narrative of James O. Pattie,' p. 152 (Cincinnati). ..."
2. On the Trail of the Pioneers: Romance, Tragedy and Triumph of the Path of Empire by John Thomson Faris (1920)
"BY MEANS OF cordelle AND BRIDLE All night above their rocky bed They saw the
stars march slow; The wild Sierra overhead, The desert's death below. ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"... and on all the beatable streams where steamboats do not yet run. Its propelling
power is by oars, sails, setting poles, the cordelle, ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Cf. cordelle.^ In her., a string of the mantle or robe of estate, ... To tow (a
boat) by hand with a cordelle, walking along the bank: a common expression ..."
5. Shakespeare's Library: A Collection of the Plays, Romances, Novels, Poems by William Carew Hazlitt, John Payne Collier (1875)
"... ande cordelle, his doughter, come with hyme, for to haue the londe after here
... as cordelle dide ; for it is ..."
6. Venice: Its Individual Growth from the Earliest Beginnings to the Fall of by Pompeo Molmenti, Horatio Forbes Brown (1907)
"In fact, in the National Gallery in London there is a picture signed Andrea
cordelle agi, followed by a paleographical symbol signifying twenty-four years ..."
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