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corde in English:

1. bowstring bowstring



English word "corde"(bowstring) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Philoktetes" (Sophocles)
Fiches du livre - "A Syrup of the Bees" (Anonymous)
Fiches du livre - "Days before history" (H. R. Hall)
Fiches du livre - "The Playwork Book" (Ann Macbeth)
Fiches du livre - "The Scarlet Plague" (Jack London)

2. rope rope


Hold the rope.
It was a real challenge for us to go down the cliff on a rope.
Don't mention rope in the home of a hanged man.
In the United States it is popular for girls to learn to skip rope.
The river is six miles deep in some areas and the only way to cross it is using a pulley and a rope.
I fastened the box tight with a rope so that it wouldn't break up.
Mr Chairman, what needs moving next, again? "Scoreboard, giant ball and the tug-of-war rope."
Jumping rope is my daughter's favorite.
Tom's wife keeps him on such a short rope.
What is this? An offering? "That's right. Put it in this offertory box ... and pull this rope."
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
When do people use a rope to pull a car?
His invention caused his death when he was strangled by the ropes.
Marius watched as Jondrette put a metal bar in the fire and inspected a rope ladder on the table.

English word "corde"(rope) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Wanda, Vol. 1 (of 3)" (Ouida)
Fiches du livre - "Thomas Moore" (Stephen Gwynn)
Fiches du livre - "Northwest!" (Harold Bindloss)
Fiches du livre - "Aylwin" (Theodore Watts-Dunton)
Fiches du livre - "The Desert Valley" (Jackson Gre...

3. cord cord


My husband cut our son's umbilical cord.
He caught the cord.
She wore the key on a cord around her neck. They used cords to tie the tent to the trees.
... box in the spinal cord where new wires, new...
After a minute of free fall he pulled the rip cord and out came the parachute.
Central nervous system consists of brain, cerebellum, medulla oblongata and spinal cord.
I think this lamp has a short because the light comes on only if I jiggle the cord.
Bolas are made up of a long cord with two stone balls at the free ends.
A device implanted in the spinal cord, dubbed the Orgasmotron, allows female patients to experience orgasm with the flick of a remote control.
Unfortunately, this cord isn't long enough
The kidnappers tied his hands with a piece of thick cord.
a piece/length of cord
extension cord
The definition of a cord is string or rope. cord = strong thick string.
That extension cord looks dangerous to me. You see where it's frayed there?

English word "corde"(cord) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Poems" (Iris Tree)
Fiches du livre - "Spool Knitting" (Mary A. McCorm...
Fiches du livre - "His Lady of the Sonnets" (Rober...
Fiches du livre - "Telephoning to Santa Claus" (Jo...
Fiches du livre - "A Latin Grammar for Schools and...