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corˇdon  audio  (kôrdn) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. A line of people, military posts, or ships stationed around an area to enclose or guard it.
  2. A cord or braid worn as a fastening or ornament.
  3. A ribbon usually worn diagonally across the breast as a badge of honor or decoration.
  4. Architecture A stringcourse.
  5. Botany A tree or shrub, especially a fruit tree such as an apple or pear, repeatedly pruned and trained to grow on a support as a single ropelike stem.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
corˇdoned, corˇdonˇing, corˇdons
To form a cordon around (an area) so as to prevent movement in or out: Troops cordoned off the riot zone.
ETYMOLOGY:
French, from Old French, diminutive of corde, cord ; see cord


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