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CORD OF WOOD

Volume 5 · 56 words · 1797 Edition

certain quantity of wood for burning, so called because formerly measured with a cord. The dimensions of a statute cord of wood are eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad.

Cord-Wood, is new wood, and such as, when brought by water, comes on board a vessel, in opposition to that which is floated.