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

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

Suppose I saw a pretty girl on a bush road.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock

An armed party was dispatched along a bush road to seize the wireless station.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 by Various

Even to discover your own trench is often like finding a bush road.

From Letters from France by Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow)

Mahony let the reins droop on his horse's neck, and the animal picked its way among the impedimenta of the bush road.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel