To stack up in cords.
1762. [The wood] is first corded here.—Tr., Busching’s ‘Syst. Geog.,’ v. 652. (N.E.D.)
1833. Was it [the timber] corded up like steamboat wood, and in that manner devoured?—Introduction to ‘Sketches of D. Crockett,’ p. 13.
