See Rope.

To see yourself caught among briars, black enemies are weaving cords of calumny and perjury intricately around you and will cause you great distress, but if you succeed in disengaging yourself from the briars, loyal friends will come to your assistance in every emergency.

…It is bad Dreaming of cabbage. Disorders may run riot in all forms. Dreaming of seeing cabbage green, means unfaithfulness in love and infidelity in wedlock. To cut heads of cabbage, denotes that you are tightening the cords of calamity around you by lavish expenditure….

The dream, in which you see the cords, represents the shortage of freedom in your life. Perhaps somebody is giving you the pressure, therefore you wish to get more freedom in your life. The dream, in which the cord is cut, indicates the separation of some bond you made to someone in your life. Maybe the dream warns about upcoming divorce or break up with someone you like.