Corduroy vs Needlecord - What's the difference?
corduroy | needlecord |
A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
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To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
*1886 , Ulysses S. Grant,
*: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.
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, pp. 827-8:
As nouns the difference between corduroy and needlecord
is that corduroy is a heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs while needlecord is a fine corduroy fabric.As a verb corduroy
is to make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.corduroy
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(wikipedia corduroy) (en noun)Derived terms
* corduroys * corduroy roadVerb
(en verb)- But Sherman organized “pioneer battalions” of soldiers and freedmen [...] to cut saplings and trees to corduroy the roads, build bridges, and construct causeways.
