DCHP-3

bush clearing

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a farm on cleared land in the bush.

See: clearing(def. 1a)

Quotations

1947
. . . since it was hard work to clear the land and to farm on these bush clearings, the depot farmer usually limited his crops to potatoes for the [lumber] camp and oats for the horses.
1965
A few thousand . . . people scratch out a living in bush clearings or on high rocky pastures.