cord
/ˈkoɹd/ verb C2- To furnish with cords.
- To tie or fasten with cords.
- To flatten a book during binding.
- To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
He/she/it cords · Past corded · Past participle corded · -ing form cording
Verb forms
- Base form
- cord
- He/she/it
- cords
- Past
- corded
- Past participle
- corded
- -ing form
- cording
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One of the sailors leaped on shore, a cord creaked as it ran through a pulley, and Dantès guessed they were at the end of the voyage, and that they were mooring the boat.
Holmes took a swift glance round, and then pounced upon a sodden bundle tied together with cord which lay where it had been thrust under the writing table.
Sherlock Holmes put the sopping bundle upon the table beside the lamp and undid the cord which bound it.
It is one of those little blue velvet ones that are all the rage, with gold cord and tassels.
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