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 is a long journey on foot to Mollineux, to one unacquainted with a blazed path in a bush road.

From Roughing It in the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

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

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

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