bush road
[ boosh-rohd ]
nounCanadian.
a rough road cut through forested land, usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
Origin of bush road
1First recorded in 1820–30
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How to use bush road in a sentence
An armed party was dispatched along a bush road to seize the wireless station.
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. CaswellCarney 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. FraserWe turned at a walk, and the chasm of the bush road opened up.
Over Prairie Trails | Frederick Philip GroveIt is a long journey on foot to Mollineux, to one unacquainted with a blazed path in a bush road.
Roughing it in the Bush | Susanna Moodie
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