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Found 1 definition: corduroy.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun corduroy has 2 senses

1. corduroy(n = noun.artifact) cord - a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton;
is a kind of cloth, fabric, material, textile
has particulars: bedford cord, narrow wale, wide wale

2. corduroy(n = noun.artifact) - a road made of logs laid crosswise;
is a kind of road, route
Derived form verb corduroy₁

Verb corduroy has 1 senses

corduroy(v = verb.creation) - build (a road) from logs laid side by side;
is one way to build, construct, make
Derived form noun corduroy₂
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[CIDE DICTIONARY]

corduroy, n. [Prob. for F. corde du roi king's cord.].

1. A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges. [1913 Webster]

2. Trousers or breeches of corduroy. [1913 Webster]

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.]

corduroy, v. t.

To form of logs laid side by side. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

corduroy, n.
1 a thick cotton fabric with velvety ribs.
2 (in pl.) corduroy trousers.

Idiom:
corduroy road a road made of tree-trunks laid across a swamp.

Etymology:
18th c.: prob. f. CORD ribbed fabric + obs. duroy coarse woollen fabric

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Furrow

N furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit, chamfer, fluting, corduroy road, cradle hole, channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke, moat, fosse, trough, kennel, ravine, tajo, thank-ye-ma'am, furrowed, ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated, bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated, canaliferous, trisulcate, corduroy, unisulcate, costate, rimiform.