underbrushing

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the action or process of removing underbrush, as in clearing land.

Quotations

1853

As soon as the underbrushing was finished, I hired another man and commenced cutting out a sleigh road to Peterborough.

1863

A man in a red shirt, who was engaged in underbrushing at a little distance, said that " the town " was only a mile away . . . .

1933

That process . . . called "underbrushing," was continued over a space about twenty yards wide, up the steep bank of the creek to the high level land.