Also 5 coord, 6 coard, 8 chord. [f. CORD sb.1]
1. trans. To furnish with a cord; to string (e.g., a bow).
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. lviii. (1869), 204. With þe corde which þe bowe was corded, and þat j haue vncorded.
1870. [see CORDER 3].
2. To bind or fasten with a cord or cords.
1610. Markham, Masterp., II. v. 228. You shal then cord him hard about the midst of the necke.
1691. Lond. Gaz., No. 2646/4. A hair Portmantua Trunk, lock’d and corded.
1718. Ockley, Saracens, II. 199. He commanded his Men to cord the Tents close together.
1844. Dickens, Mart. Chuz., vi. Miss Charity called him to come and cord her box.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 980. To cord the treddle 1, to the back leaf, put a raising cord, and to each of the other four, sinking cords.
3. To stack or put up (wood) in ‘cords.’
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., V. 652. The greater part of the wood which is transported to Hamburg … is first corded here.
1870. Emerson, Soc. & Solit., xi. 239. The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees, and says … ‘they should be cut and corded before spring.’
