cordel.
string (thin thread)
Meaning & usage
string (thin thread)
twine (thin cord or rope)
chain (surverying or measuring rope, typically of 50 or 100 varas)
cordel, Spanish chain (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.9 m in 19th-century Spain)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Catalan cordell (“cord, string”), from Vulgar Latin *cordellus (“little rope, cord, string”), from Latin chorda (“rope, cord”) + -ellus (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to corda + -el.
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