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brush out
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
clear the brush from land.
See: brush ((v.))(def. 1)
Quotations
1896
Fancy, people now, going alone 50 miles, following a road brushed out and blazed and carrying through these solitary forests these necessaries of their lives.
1956
The old trail to the cabin was overgrown, and he got the ax to brush it out.
1963
It was in order to make patrols in the hills possible that the work of "brushing out"--clearing and blazing narrow trails . . . was undertaken. . . .