bush road
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bush road
First recorded in 1820–30
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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 Henry Handel Richardson
It was just about daybreak that he put his brigade in motion and moved west by an old bush road until he struck the Ridge Road, which bears south-west from the river to Ridgeway.
From Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 by John A. (John Alexander) MacDonald
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 William Charles Henry Wood
Even to discover your own trench is often like finding a bush road.
From Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean
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 John Campbell
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