corduroyed

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1adj.

of a road or bridge surfaced with corduroy (def. 2).

Quotations

1866

We built bridges over all small streams, that were not fordable, corduroyed swamps.

1958

For four days she sat in that wagon lurching in the mud holes, swaying over the corduroyed sloughs.

2adj.

of logs, laid close together to form a corduroy road.

1942

. . . we went on along the power line, first across a very large swamp, where the trail lay over "corduroyed" logs. . . .