cordage

plural cordages

1. uncountableCord (of any type) when viewed as a mass or commodity.
2. countableuncountablenauticalA set of ropes and cords, especially that used for a ship's rigging.

   A lone river wind sighed in the cordage of the ship.

   1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 151

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   So Juan stood, bewildered on the deck: / The wind sung, cordage strained, and sailors swore […]

   1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza 13

   […] as the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang […]

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

   Boatswain Marsham fell to work overhauling the bolts of sail-cloth and the hanks of cordage and the coils of rope, till he had found a new foresail and laid it under the hatch, and had placed great ropes and such cordage as headlines and marlines and sennets so that a man could lay hands on them in a time of haste and confusion.

   1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8

3. countableobsoleteuncountableAn amount of wood measured in cords.