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    CORDED

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Of textiles; having parallel raised linesplay

    Synonyms:

    corded; twilled

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

     II. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Past simple / past participle of the verb cord

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    A strangely opposed pair they appeared as they approached each other: Tranter dark and stout and stiff, with hairy chest and corded arms, Alleyne a model of comeliness and grace, with his golden hair and his skin as fair as a woman's.

    (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    I, at least, had nothing more to do: there were my trunks, packed, locked, corded, ranged in a row along the wall of my little chamber; to-morrow, at this time, they would be far on their road to London: and so should I (D.V.),—or rather, not I, but one Jane Rochester, a person whom as yet I knew not.

    (Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)


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