DCHP-3

bush road

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a rough road cut through the bush.

See: bush trail(def. 2)

Quotations

1831
The master and his men start before the oxen, to prepare what is termed a bush-road, which is done by felling and drawing aside all trees under five inches diameter, from the line of march, and by cutting a pass through any fallen timber of larger dimensions; thus leaving the great trees standing, round which the other being cleared away, the oxen and sleigh can ply without difficulty.
1916
Since Canadian life grew away from the bush road and the prairie trail, there has never been a man who could so have clung to the inviolable creeds that kept bushmen from going to the devil.
1964
He had three springs on the farm, and a bush road he used for woodcutting.