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bush road

noun Canadian.

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

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Origin of bush road

First recorded in 1820–30

Words nearby bush road

bush parole, bush pig, bush pilot, bush poppy, bushranger, bush road, bush shirt, bush shrike, bush sickness, bush singlet, bush tea
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Example sentences from the Web for bush road

  • Carney cut down the bush-road that wound its sinuous way to the river flat, some two hundred feet below the town level.

    Bulldog Carney|W. A. Fraser

  • But although the settlers often came across these animals, on the bush-road, I never heard of one being attacked by them.

    Stories and Sketches|Harriet S. Caswell