Quick links

brush ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

1v.

clear the brush from land.

See: brush out

Quotations

1863

. . . Arthur was "brushing" at a short distance from the shanty.

1896

They . . . brushed the road and blazed it after him. . . .

1925

I've brushed and cleared three acres. . . .

2v.

cover soft ground with brush to make a trail or road passable for men and horses.

Quotations

1880

The only route . . . leads . . . over treacherous swamps, where we were . . . delayed by the necessity of "brushing" the trail.

1905

All boggy and soft places should be brushed and . . . small streams should be bridged.

1913

. . . the work of brushing the trail was by no means unpleasant.

3v.

mark a trail, especially by setting small evergreen trees upright along a route across frozen water.

See: balise ((n.)),bush ((n.))(def. 2),balise ((v.))

Quotations

1901

Artillery Lake was reached . . . more than two weeks after it had been first visited by Fairchild and Acres, when exploring and "brushing" the trail for our voyageurs.

1934

"Brushing" a lake was necessary to mark a trail.