- (cordon) a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing
- (cordon) cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank
- (cordon) adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord
- (Cordons (vine)) In viticulture, the canopy of a grapevine includes the parts of the vine visible aboveground - the trunk, cordon, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruit. ...
- (cordon) A ribbon normally worn diagonally across the chest as a decoration or insignia of rank etc; A line of people or things placed around an area to enclose or protect it; The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman - the slips and gully; A woody plant, such as a fruit tree, ...
- (Cordon) That part of the vine that is permanent – that is it to say it is left from year to year, whereas other parts are pruned away.
- (Cordon) method of pruning grapevines so that one arm (or cordon) extends out along a trellis wire on each side of the trunk.
- (Cordon) A trained fruit tree or bush whose growth is restricted by pruning to a single stem.
- (cordon) A woody plant, most often a fruit tree, trained to grow as a single stem on a support.
- (CORDON) a military line of sentinels, as posts or warships, enclosing (PERIMETER, ambit) or guarding (DMZ, YANKEE STATION) an area; compare BLOCKING FORCE, SCREEN, CHOP LINE. Also, a CORD, braid, or ribbon worn as an ornament, fastening, or badge; fourragere, LANYARD, CONTRAFOIL.
- (Cordon) (cor'-don) A ribbon worn across the breast by knights of some orders.
- (Cordon) A trained plant usually with only one main stem
- (Cordon) Method of training fruit tree, as single stem. There are also double and triple cordons, with two and three main stems respectively.
- (Cordon) Term for the main branch of the trunk of a vine; bearing wood arm of a trunk
- (Cordon) The board of the dry grass of the land where the agave plant.
- (Cordon) The coping or top course of a scarp or a rampart, sometimes of different colored stone and set proud from the rest of the wall. Designed to keep the wall from weathering. The point where a rampart stops and a parapet begins. An open line of troops surrounding an objective.
- (Cordon) horizontal branches of a grapevine trained along the trellis; also called the arms. The canes left after pruning which will produce fruiting shoots and new canes.
- (cordon) (kôr dn) n. 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. ...
- (cordon) A barrier of controlled or blocked cells that cuts off a king from part of the board.
- (cordon) A kind of trellis used to train grape vines.
- (cordon) A line of soldiers to honor a dignitary upon entering or exiting from a given place or vehicle.
- (cordon) An ornamental or fruit tree that is trained into a single main stem with no side branching.
- (cordon) a line or circle, as of soldiers or ships, stationed around an area to guard it.
- (cordon) cord / funicle / funiculus
- (cordon) generally appliced to fruit trees that are trained by removing all the lateral branchs to leave a single main stem grwoing upright, horizontally, or more often at an oblique angle.