DCHP-1 Online

brushwood

• 1 † n. low-growing trees and shrubs; undergrowth.

  See also: brush ((n.)) (def. 1)  

  • 1806  (1897)  At five o'clock we came to a small lake on which grew brushwood and poiriers.
  • 1933  . . . the smaller brushwood had been cut and piled. . . .

• 2 n. lopped-off branches, especially evergreen boughs.

  See also: brush ((n.)) (def. 2)  

  • 1942  We found a Micmac family crouching in a wretched little bark hut, banked with brushwood and sawdust. . . .

• 3 n. Obs. the woods; the forest or backcountry; the bush.

  See also: brush ((n.)) (def. 3)  

  • 1829  . . . they seem to be just as much at home among the thick brushwood, without road or sun, as we are in a cleared country.