cordage
['kɔrdɪdʒ]
n. 绳索, 船索, 某指木材总数

1. You shall make on the breastpiece chains of twisted cordage work in pure gold.
   28:22牌、精金拧绳链。
2. Analyze and compare the general lathe work and the CNC lathe work for the cordage core rod's thread.
   绳索钻杆螺纹通削、控削。
3. Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by native Americans; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints.
   美种布麻属植，种质纤维，去常被美洲编制绳索；医治疗疼痛。

cordage
[ noun ]

1. the amount of wood in an area as measured in cords

<noun.quantity>

2. the ropes in the rigging of a ship

<noun.artifact>

Cordage \Cord"age\ (k[^o]rd"[asl]j), n. [F. cordage. See
{Cord}.]
Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or
cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist
of ropes.