DCHP-3

milking the bushes

North, Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See: hedging

Quotations

1940
The most primitive method is to pull the boat upstream by grasping bushes along the shore. This is known as "milking the bushes."