Usually means: Unit of measurement for firewood.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. cord: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cord: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cord: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cord: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cord: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cord, cord: Wordnik
  7. cord: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cord: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. cord: Wiktionary
  10. cord: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cord: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cord: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. CORD: Dictionary.com
  14. cord: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. cord: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Cord (automobile), Cord (band), Cord (film), Cord (sewing), Cord (unit), Cord (unit of volume), Cord: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Cord: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. cord: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. cord: Rhymezone
  20. cord: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. cord: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. cord: Free Dictionary
  23. cord: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cord: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. cord: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. cord: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)
  2. cord-, cord-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Cord: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cord: Netlingo
  2. cord: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Cord: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Cord: Merck Manuals
  4. cord: Sound Alike Words
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Cord: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. cord: Medical dictionary
  8. Cord: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. CORD: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. cord: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cord: Easton Bible
  2. Cord: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cord: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cord: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  3. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  4. CORD: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  5. Paper Making (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  7. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See corded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (a rope, for example).
noun:  (uncountable) Any quantity of such material when viewed as a mass or commodity.
noun:  A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
noun:  A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
noun:  (figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
noun:  (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
verb:  To furnish with cords
verb:  To tie or fasten with cords
verb:  To flatten a book during binding
verb:  To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
noun:  Dated form of chord: musical sense. [(music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.]
noun:  Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing. [(music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.]

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