Corduroy Road\Cor"du*roy` Road*\(k[^o]r"d[-u]*roi` [r^od]` n.

1. 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. [U.S.] “A great portion of the way was over what is called a corduroy road, which is made by throwing trunks of trees into a marsh, and leaving them to settle there. The very slightest of the jolts with which the ponderous carriage fell from log to log, was enough, it seemed, to have dislocated all the bones in the human body.”- Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation, 1842

Corduroy Road Productions\ n. a New York-based production company founded by animator Katrina Whalen. [U.S.] “Corduroy Road Productions is a production company dedicated to the creation of work you could appreciate at noon with your grandparents or at 3 am with a bottle of Jack Daniels.” - Lu Kaufman, collaborator, 2004