corduroying

Verb

corduroy (third-person singular simple present corduroys, present participle corduroying, simple past and past participle corduroyed)

1. To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
   • The night was very dark and it rained heavily, the roads were so bad that the troops had to cut trees and corduroy the road a part of the way, to get through.1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, chapter 53

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