DCHP-1 Online

corduroy bridge

• 1 a short stretch of corduroy road, bridging a swamp, muskeg, etc.

  See also: corduroy road  log crossway  

  • The terms corduroy, corduroy bridge, and corduroy road seem often to be used interchangeably by early writers to refer to a stretch of road made passable by a surface of transversely placed logs. The relatively late quotes for corduroy road and corduroy bridge (def. 2) suggest that a need for a distinction between them arose only when the latter term became widely used.

• 2 a bridge having a surface of transversely placed logs.