cordage

noun

1. (uncountable)Cord (of any type) when viewed as a mass or commodity.
2. (countable, uncountable)A set of ropes and cords, especially that used for a ship's rigging.

   “So Juan stood, bewildered on the deck: / The wind sung, cordage strained, and sailors swore […]”

   “[…] as the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang […]”

   “Boatswain Marsham fell to work overhauling the bolts of sail-cloth and the hanks of cordage and the coils of rope, till he had found a new foresail and laid it under the hatch, and had placed great ropes and such cordage as headlines and marlines and sennets so that a man could lay hands on them in a time of haste and confusion.”

   “A lone river wind sighed in the cordage of the ship.”

3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)An amount of wood measured in cords.