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How to use cordage in a sentence

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Jake, knowing me more than anyone, knew this, and had make a two-person swing out of wood and cordage.
Footropes still to be added to the foremast topsail, and some cordage here and there to be sorted out.
At the time, there was great demand in Europe for good processed flax to make naval rope, cordage and sails.
The main mast top mast was bent to the deck with cordage and sail draping across to starboard.
It can be spun into a filament that is useful for making rope, webbing and cordage.
They cultivated cotton and wound it for cordage and twisted it into yarn for making garments.
Hemp for cordage and sails was an early crop in the colonies, and one useful for more than warship construction.
It's nice to have a few yards of paracord in your pocket, but all kinds of vegetation can be pressed into service to make ropes and cordage.
He picked out some seeds and cordage, rope made by twisting plant fibers together.
This facility was a major producer of rope and cordage for the whole of the Royal Navy until March 1991, when all production ceased because of bomb damage.
Before the comparatively recent introduction of synthetic fibres, we relied on natural vegetable and animal products to make our clothes, cloths, carpets, and cordage.
Hanks of sisal fiber purchased in Elmina market, usually used for making ropes and cordage for ocean-going fishing canoes, were dyed and dried in Hippies' upstairs studios.
The Paiute deadfall uses a piece of cordage and a catch stick.
Paper, often of the highest quality, as well as cordage, can be made from the bark of many genera, including Edgeworthia, Daphne, and Gnidia.
Kenaf was unknown in the West until late in the 18th century, when cordage and sacking made from the fibre were brought to Europe.
Gourds and cotton were also grown, the gourds for use as containers and net floats, the cotton for twined fabric and cordage.
Examples: sporting shoes, veils for paragliding, different cordage.... waterproof breathable clothing?
It is a small piece of two-ply cordage approximately 10 cm long.
From impressions of fiber cordage on fired clay, archaeologists have discovered evidence of string and of rope-making technology in Europe that dates back 28,000 years.
Cotton spinning and the manufacture of sacking, sailcloth, and cordage were the main occupations.
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C is a reef knot, used for knotting the reef points of sails or uniting the ends of ropes or cordage.
Such noise as it has is elemental, justifiable, like a ship's cordage in a gale.
There is also plenty of hemp for cordage, and tar could be made in abundance.
The epidermis of the leaves furnishes the strings for hammocks and all kinds of cordage.
Sometimes a grommet, or ring of cordage, is worked upon the spear near one end, to prevent the hand slipping when making a thrust.
New Zealand flax, a kind of marsh hemp, yields a fibre used in making cordage.
The bark is employed in infusion as a sudorific and in cutaneous diseases, and its fibrous tissue is manufactured into cordage.
Why engirdle its waist in warmth and cordage, and expose its feet to every storm and frost, to mud and snow?
He could see nothing through the porthole save a dark blur, but he heard the creaking of cordage and the slatting of sails.
Ships there are swaying, Into the distance, thrum of the cordage, Slap of the sails.
We only kept one sabre, in case we had to cut some cordage or some piece of wood.
In the rope-walks of the town, the cordage for the gallant Yankee ships was spun.
Mrs. Osborne has dealt with the netting, textiles, and cordage, and the distribution of their techniques outside Baja California.
I suppose that you must be very short of timber, cordage, and ship stores?
I missed my timber and gun-cotton and cordage and corrugated iron.
The second mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, and a wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro.
The nest was built in a block where some of the cordage runs.
The fibre of the piassava is widely used for cordage, brushes and brooms.
The seamen were all provided with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength.
With the strength of desperation he clung to the cordage, seeking frantically to entangle his legs and body in it.
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