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

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 MacDonald, John A. (John Alexander)

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

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)

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