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Answer for the clue "Cordage plant ", 4 letters:
hemp

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Usage examples of hemp.

Please remove the hemp to a place sufficiently distant from the house, so that its bad smell may not annoy the spirits to be evoked by me, and let the air be purified by the discharge of gunpowder.

The worn-out ones had been carted to the foundling home in Brewhouse Lane where the children had been made to dismantle the matted remnants of tar and hemp.

The pants and shirt were made of coarse-spun indio cotton and maguey, the sandals were hemp.

When the hemp or marihuana plants are drying, they are hung upside down in a room lined with burlap.

The habitation of Powhatan was situated on a high hill by the water side, with a meadow at its foot where was grown wheat, beans, tobacco, peas, pompions, flax, and hemp.

The term Dock is botanically a noun of multitude, meaning originally a bundle of hemp, and corresponding to a similar word signifying a flock.

Effie noticed it as she unsheathed her knife and set flint to the hemp.

African Negroes, seeds added to hashish and leaves to hemp by Bengalese Indians.

The town carries on an extensive trade in grain, flax, hemp, wood, tar and leather.

Pests threatened the rice and hemp, vital crops both, and the Filipinized Bureau of Agriculture slept on.

But, judging by the insane flaccid-ity, the pottering idleness with which, in the winter of 1923-4, the Filipinized Agricultural Department and the entirely preoccupied Legislature confronted a deadly hemp pest, the life of the Philippine hemp industry depends on its unaided star--and may at any moment flicker out for all time.

Alain ran his hands over each fingerbreadth of the hull while Henri replaced the leather lining and hemp rope that secured the rudder to the boss.

Blackbeard dipped hemp cord in saltpeter and limewater and set them to burning under his hat in a fight.

Angelo with an iron chain and poisoning the springs in the Marsa plain with hemp and arsenic.

Now her finery, her paste jewels and her enormous super-imposition of black hair hung up in the green room and she wore a drab rag of coarse hemp for the final scene of her desperate decline, when, outrageous nymphomaniac, she practised extraordinary necrophilies on the bloated corpses the sea tossed contemptuously at her feet for her dry rapacity had become entirely mechanical and still she repeated her former actions though she herself was utterly other.