Definition of: cord

(kôrd) noun
1. A string of several strands.
2. A measure for wood; in the United States a pile 4 } 4 } 8 feet, equal to 128 cubic feet, or 3.62 cubic meters.
3. A wale or rib in a fabric giving a raised effect.
4. A corded fabric.
5. Pl. U.S. Corduroy trousers.
6. Anat. A cordlike structure: the spinal cord.
7. Often plural Any feeling that draws or restrains.
6. The rope used by a hangman.
—v.t.
1. To bind or secure with cord; furnish with cords.
2. To pile (firewood) by the cord. ♦ Homophone: chord. [<F corde <L chorda <Gk. chordē string of a musical instrument. Doublet of CHORD.]
—cord′er noun