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Webster 1913 Edition

(k?r′r?-d?r or -d?r)

Noun.

[F., fr. Itt.

corridpore

, or Sp.

corredor

; prop., a runner, hence, a running or long line, a gallery, fr. L.

currere

to run. See

(Arch.)

A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

(Fort.)

The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

[R.]

Noun.

The termination dor may perhaps be the L. Tor, as in curator, cursitor. Corridor signifies a runner; hence, a running, flowing, or long line.]

In architecture, a gallery or long aisle round a building, leading to several chambers at a distance from each other.

In fortification, the covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.