Corduroy

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  • noun. A durable cut-pile fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
  • noun. Pants made of corduroy.
  • noun. A road made of logs laid down crosswise.
  • adjective. Made of a fabric with vertical ribs.
  • adjective. Made of logs laid down crosswise.
  • transitive verb. To build (a road) of logs laid down crosswise.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In splitting a hide, to make uneven lines or spots on the flesh side of it.
  • To make or construct by means of small logs laid transversely, as a road.
  • noun. A thick cotton stuff corded or ribbed on the surface.
  • noun. A corduroy road. See II., 1.
  • Like corduroy; ribbed like corduroy: as, a corduroy road.
  • Made of corduroy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To form of logs laid side by side.
  • noun. A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.
  • noun. Trousers or breeches of corduroy.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
  • verb. To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a road made of logs laid crosswise
  • verb. build (a road) from logs laid side by side
  • noun. a cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton