bush road

American  

[boosh rohd] / ˈbʊʃ ˌroʊd /

noun

Canadian.

1. a rough road cut through forested land, usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.

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Etymology

Origin of bush road

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

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bush road

Built as a bush road by Simcoe in 1794.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

Each of these towns asserted its advantages and promised twelve trips a year and connection with Quebec overland by means of walking postmen till a bush road should be cut from Quebec to the sea.

From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry

Collins Street was now as empty as a bush road.

From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel

It was a regular bush road, nearly ten miles long, made to avoid the falls of the Pigeon.

From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by Wood, William Charles Henry

We shall start straight for the bush road into the north, if that suits you," he said, "and travel by easy stages towards Collingwood, where we shall again behold one of our inland seas.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John