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corduroy road en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A road paved with split or round logs laid crosswise side by side, used e.g. to cross swampy areas.
   • The army moved from Savannah on the 28th of January, 1865, on its march through South Carolina […] During this march, Sherman’s army had built thirty-nine miles of corduroy road through the otherwise impassable swamps. 1903, Benjamin F. Gue, History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Volume 2 Chapter 12:

Forms

Coordinates

boardwalk · plank road

Translations (8)

de Knüppelweg (road paved with logs) · de Bohlenweg (road paved with logs) · fi kapulatie (road paved with logs) · de Knüppeldamm (road paved with logs) · sv kavelbro (road paved with logs) · ru гать (road paved with logs) · de Prügelweg (road paved with logs) · ang bēamweġ (road paved with logs)