DCHP-1 Online
brush out 
v. clear the brush from land.
See also: brush ((v.)) (def. 1)
- 1896 Fancy, people now, going alone 50 miles, following a road brushed out and blazed and carrying through these solitary forests these necessaries of their lives.
- 1956 The old trail to the cabin was overgrown, and he got the ax to brush it out.
- 1963 It was in order to make patrols in the hills possible that the work of "brushing out"--clearing and blazing narrow trails . . . was undertaken. . . .
- 1896 Fancy, people now, going alone 50 miles, following a road brushed out and blazed and carrying through these solitary forests these necessaries of their lives.