DCHP-3

bush lot

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1

a holding of uncleared land.

Quotations

1891
There was not a tree cut on the 200 acres at the time, so . . . [they] had to undergo the hardships and privations peculiar to early pioneer settlement on a bush lot in the back-woods.
1928
. . . I'll take a bush lot from the Seminary and be a farmer. . . .
2

a tract of land left uncleared on a farm and used as a source of wood, and as a grazing area for cattle.

See: bush ((n.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1947
Trucks can't pick up saw-logs, or cord-wood, in a bushlot that is swimming ankle deep in water and bumper-deep in mud.