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

We turned at a walk, and the chasm of the bush road opened up.

From Over Prairie Trails by Grove, Frederick Philip

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)

On the bush road the going was good—now and then a small drift, but nothing alarming anywhere.

From Over Prairie Trails by Grove, Frederick Philip

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

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 Campbell, John