Corduroy road, 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.]
Cor"du*roy`, v. t. To form of logs laid side by side. "Roads were corduroyed." Gen. W. T. Sherman.
Cord"wain (k?rd"w?n), n. [OE. cordewan, cordian, OF. cordoan, cordouan, fr. Sp. cordoban. See Cordovan.] A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.
Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain.
Spenser.
Cord"wain*er (-?r), n. [OE. cordwaner, cordiner, fr. OF. cordoanier, cordouanier, F. cordonnier.] A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]
Core (kōr), n. [F. corps. See Corps.] A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.]
He was in a core of people.
Bacon.
Core, n. [Cf. Chore.] (Mining.) A miner's underground working time or shift. Raymond.
&fist; The twenty-four hours are divided into three or four cores.
Core, n. [Heb. kōr: cf. Gr. ko`ros.] A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. Num. xi. 32 (Douay version).
Core, n. [OF. cor, coer, cuer, F. cťur, fr. L. cor heart. See Heart.] 1. The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.
A fever at the core,
Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
Byron.
2. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.