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corduroyed

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

  See also: corduroy ((n.)) (def. 2)  

  • 1866  (1958)  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.

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

  See also: corduroy road  

  • 1942  . . . we went on along the power line, first across a very large swamp, where the trail lay over "corduroyed" logs. . . .