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cordel.

Spanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Spanish chain, a traditional Spanish and Mexican unit of distance equivalent to about 41.9 m.

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Where this word comes from

From Spanish cordel (“surveying rope, 50 varas”), from Catalan cordell (“cord, string”), from Vulgar Latin *cordellus (“little rope”), from Latin chorda (“rope, cord”) + -ellus (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to cord + -el.

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