[f. CORD v.1 + -ER1.]
1. One who cords or fastens with a cord.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. lviii. (1869), 204. My mooder Charitee was cordere and thredere of þis corde.
1824. Southey, in Lett. (1856), III. 449. Take care this box be a little better corded than the last, the corder whereof ought to have been sent to the treading-mill.
2. An operative who forms a cord, welt, or braid, in the shoemaking and other trades.
1885. H. M. Newhall, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 280–1. A ‘corder’ forms the top and button scallops over a round-pointed piece of steel securely fastened to a table.
1891. Daily Chron., 18 March, 9/1. Bonnaz Braiders and Corders.—Permanent weekly hands wanted.
3. In a sewing-machine: An appliance for stitching a piping-cord, or the like, between the folds of a fabric.
1870. Willcox & Gibbs’ Price List, 22. Cording with the Corder. The Corder lays the Cord while the Machine stitches it in.
