CORDUROY

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.

2.
n.

Trousers or breeches of corduroy. Corduroy road, a roadway formed of logs laid side by side across it, as in marshy places; -- so called from its rough or ribbed surface, resembling corduroy. [U.S.]

3.
v.

To form of logs laid side by side. "Roads were corduroyed." Gemn. W.T. Sherman.

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