Vocabulary Word
Word: cordon
Definition: extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress; (
Definition: extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress; (
Sentences Containing 'cordon'
It was the middle-watch; a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail.
It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon, whose post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor, a Cholo, the words above.
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