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👖 A ribbed fabric 🪵 To build with logs 🪵 A log road
corduroy

corduroy

1 8.4
A road of logs laid crosswise to make wet ground passable
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔrdəˌrɔɪ/
  • Archaic
: camino de troncos (arcaico)
  • The construction team built a corduroy road to provide access through the marshy landscape after heavy rains.
  • corduroy road

Examples

  • During our hike, we encountered a corduroy road that made walking through the swamp much easier.

  • Riding the train with the rails in their present sadly decrepit state is hardly more enjoyable than driving a light buggy headlong down a corduroy road. "Then let us seek our beds," his wife said.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Waffles with pure maple syrup, pancakes, corduroy sausage, four members of the haute bourgeoisie, a fire hydrant, the ocean.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • In the past, pioneers created a corduroy road using logs placed side by side to improve travel across muddy areas.

Synonyms

skid road
vscorduroy
  • Specialized
1 8.6

A rough road made of logs for dragging cut trees

is built to cross wet ground by laying logs crosswise to aid passage

How Passable

paved
41 1.3
gravel
94 1.4
corduroy
  • Archaic
1 8.4
dirt
85 2.4

Surface Forms

corduroy singular
corduroys plural

Etymology

Corduroy for a log road comes from the cloth because the lines of logs make a ribbed look like corduroy fabric, so a 'corduroy' road is a path of logs laid over wet or muddy ground.