Cordon is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CORDON in dictionary:

VERB:
• to form a barrier around
• prevent access to or from an area or building by surrounding it with police or other guards
• put or form a cordon (around)
NOUN:
• a line or circle of police, soldiers, or guards preventing access to or from an area or building
• a fruit tree trained to grow as a single stem.
• a projecting course of brick or stone on the face of a wall.
• chain of police, soldiers, etc, guarding an area
• A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.
• The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
• The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
• A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.
• A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.
• a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing
• cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank
• adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord

Words related to CORDON

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Words that contain CORDON

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How to use CORDON in a sentence

• We were in front of the Day and Night Bank, and at a word from Grady, the men spread into a close cordon before the building.
• In the darkness it was impossible for the strikers to tell how many armed men confronted them, so they fell back a little, but formed a cordon around the entire building.
• He turned his back and addressed the head man of the village while his six silken satellites made a cordon between us.
• He then put a cordon around the posts on the hills, lest the men should escape in the night, and, having prepared for an assault the next morning, sent us word to join him.
• And so the night fell on us, and the bands returned to their camp, leaving a cordon to pen in the few remaining Turks.
• His death came in the effort of a small band of insurgents to pass the Spanish cordon designed to confine activities to Oriente Province.
• It was thus impossible, constitutionally, to draw a cordon around the slavery issue and confine the discussion of it to state politics.
• For this double cordon system the rods will stand six inches apart in the rows, and it is desirable to make them secure against damage from high winds.
• The pilot was brought ashore in a boat, and when the tide went down a cordon of guards was placed round the machine till it was removed.
• These things besides, surrounded her with all sorts of fussy people, both male and female, and through this cordon Thompson seldom broke for confidential talk with her.
• About the royal pavilion in triple cordon paced the noble body-guard of the Pharaoh.
• The house was guarded by a cordon of police, for there was no inconsiderable danger of a popular riot.
• There is a cordon of English sentries, but they are not very near to the house.
• One day I followed the broken cordon on its eastern bank, then turned north and ascended an isolated mountain, which rises about fifteen hundred feet high above the river.
• The mesa, 300 by 200 feet in extent, was a natural fortress difficult of access, except at one point where a little cordon, like an isthmus, led to it.
• But a cordon had been drawn around the fortress, and the process of starvation had set in.
• They were immediately surrounded, at a very respectable distance, by a cordon of Samoans.
• Late in September, the Turks sallied out and established a cordon of posts at a distance of some 30 to 40 miles from the city.
• Making a sudden dart, he sprang through the cordon of guards, and was off, running at a surprising speed.
• Was ever another scorpion more completely surrounded and shut in by a cordon of fire? This is surely something, but it is by no means all.
• The boy thought it strange that such a man should be put in charge of any part of the defensive cordon around Quebec.
• But it mattered little which way they turned now, for our cordon was closing round them, the windward line then being less than a mile distant.
• The French Revolution must be hemmed in by a cordon of fire.
• With the river on one side and this cordon of foot and horsemen on the other, it seemed that nothing could possibly escape.
• An occasional effective shot was placed, but every time he forced his way through the cordon he was confronted by a second line.
• But a cordon of isolated earthworks does not appeal as an effective barrier to the civilian mind, and above Point of Rocks the great river was easy of passage.
• Sick at heart and almost overcome with horror, Captain Carpenter, with quickened footsteps, passed through the cordon of guards, and followed his guide from the dreadful spot.
• We heard the firing of cannon on all sides, but that same night we undertook a cunning backward movement, and when the enemy closed their cordon an hour later the bird had flown.
• With him in this fate was Colonel Dain, commander of the troops who formed a cordon round the doomed city.
• Moreau, whip in hand, marshalled us all into an irregular line, and we advanced now slowly, shouting to one another as we advanced and tightening the cordon about our victim.
• THROUGH THE CORDON IT was no easy matter to pass through the British forces that lay massed around the mountain-chain.

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