a towrope, esp. as formerly used on Mississippi flatboats and keelboats
Origin of cordelle
Fr, diminutive of Old French corde, rope: see cordtransitive verb
-·delled′, -·dell′ing to tow with or as with a cordelle
cordelle
cor·delleWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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