Corded

ppl. a. [f. CORD¹ + -ED.]

  1.  Bound with cords; in Her. represented as bound or wound about with cords.

1486.  Bk. St. Albans, Her., C iij. Among odyr crossis oon is founde the wich is calde a coorddid cros … for hit is made of cordys.

1801.  Med. Jrnl., V. 256. A sense of corded tightness round his head.

1856.  Aird, Poet. Wks., 287. In corded stiffness pent.

  2.  Having cords; made of or furnished with cords; in the form of cords.

1382.  Wyclif, Pref. Ep. Jerome, vii. 72. The ten cordid sawtri.

1575.  Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees), 10. Bedsteades not coarded.

1591.  Shaks., Two Gent., II. vi. 33. This night he meaneth with a Corded-ladder To climbe celestiall Siluia’s chamber window.

1812.  Southey, Omniana, II. 41. All Minorites … and all the corded families.

1830.  E. Hawkins, Anglo-Gallic Coins, 11. The legend is contained within two corded circles.

  3.  Having raised lines or stripes, like cords, upon the surface; esp. of textile fabrics: ribbed, twilled.

1760–72.  trans. Juan & Ulloa’s Voy., II. 126. The Indians … apply themselves to weaving bays, corded stuffs, [etc.].

1847.  Craig, Corded … furrowed.

1882.  Beck, Draper’s Dict., Corduroy, a thick corded stuff of cotton.

1884.  Girl’s Own Paper, Feb., 227/1. The corded turtle, so called because of seven deep furrows or grooves on its shell.

1886.  Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll, x. 121. The hand … was lean, corded, knuckly.

  4.  Piled or stacked in ‘cords’ (see CORD sb.¹ 9).

1847.  Emerson, Poems, Threnody, Wks. (Bohn), I. 489. The kennel by the corded wood.