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(chiefly US) Name used for many cemeteries in the American Old West; nickname for any cemetery.
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(South Africa) A bush meeting; a strategy meeting held outdoors, for example in a game reserve.
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(obsolete except dialectal) A bush.
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(music) A poem or a piece of folk music that celebrates traditional Australian culture, especially rural culture.
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(slang) A person not educated in any particular religion; a religious zealot or proselytiser not educated in religion.
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Alternative spelling of bus kanaka [(Papua New Guinea) An uncivilised person; a person who follows a traditional rather than modern lifestyle.]
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(New Zealand, historical) A mining agent.
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The traditional medicinal and health practices of Indigenous Australians.
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(chiefly Canada) An outdoor social gathering held in a wooded area or a field, especially one attended primarily by young people at which alcohol is drunk.
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(Australia, obsolete) A person who guides people through bushland.
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(idiomatic) A system used by undeveloped societies in remote regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds, word-of-mouth relay, or smoke signals.
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Traditional Aboriginal food (tucker) gathered or hunted in bushland.
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(Australia, informal) An imagined or symbolic time when assumedly unsophisticated people from the countryside come to the city, likely to be preyed on by tricksters there, or who are unaware of social norms in the city.
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Alternative spelling of bus kanaka [(Papua New Guinea) An uncivilised person; a person who follows a traditional rather than modern lifestyle.]
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(Australia, New Zealand) To travel or build a route straight across country rather than following an established track, typically involving forcing one's way through forest and/or undergrowth.
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A young bushman; a boy who lives or camps in the bush.
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(Australia) Lost in the bush.
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Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
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Traditional Aboriginal food gathered from the bush.
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Of or pertaining to a person named Bush, in particular and usually President of the United States, George W. Bush:
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(Australia, colloquial) Someone who lives in or is familiar with the Australian outback; a bushman or bushwoman.
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(chiefly Australia) An area of land in a natural, uncultivated state; wilderness, open forest.
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(Australia) A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.
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The survival skills of a bushman.
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(obsolete) A surprise party; a company of soldiers secretly deployed.
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(Australia, obsolete) A person skilled in bushcraft.
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The outlaw lifestyle of a bushranger.
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Alternative spelling of bush tucker [Traditional Aboriginal food (tucker) gathered or hunted in bushland.]
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Alternative spelling of bushwhack [to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress]
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(Australia, New Zealand) A hike; an off-road walk in the countryside, possibly wearing a backpack, undertaken as a leisure activity.
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(Australia, New Zealand) A hiker or backpacker.
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to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
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(Australia) A woman who lives or has lived in the Australian outback.
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Work carried out in the bushland.
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(agriculture) Initialism of concentrated animal feeding operation; factory farm.
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The process of transporting a herd of bovine animals (such as bulls, cows, or steers) by compelling them to walk across a significant distance of countryside, under the escort of drovers on horseback and often over a period of days.
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Alternative form of cattle guard [(US) Synonym of cattle grid]
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(US, dated) A 19th-century device used around the necks of cows and other livestock to prevent them from challenging fencing. The action of the device was to poke the cow when the device came into contact with the fence.
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(chiefly Scotland) A merchant's booth; a shop or tent where goods are sold; a stall
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A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
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Alternative form of dikelet [A small dike.]
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(Australia, New Zealand) To abandon one's normal surroundings and live in the bush; to flee into the bush; to revert to a feral nature
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(British India) A native employed in India to bring grass for horses.
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(Australia, slang) A person who lives alone in the bush.
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(Scotland, Northumbria) A glen with steep, overhanging sides
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(travel) An air route between the United Kingdom and Australia via Asia, especially that route flown by Qantas.
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An enclosure for keeping lambs.
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A shed in which animals are milked. (Contrast milkhouse, a building or portion thereof where milk is cooled and stored pending transport.)
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The grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock and found in a pasture.
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To take part in a picnic.
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A Scandinavian mountainside meadow used during the summer for grazing milking cows or goats.
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Alternative form of sandhog [(US, slang, also figuratively) A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water.]
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Alternative form of sandhog [(US, slang, also figuratively) A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water.]
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(Australia) Someone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society.
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(Australia, transitive) To send away into the bush (etymology 3)
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(UK, New Zealand, Australia) A sheep farm.
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(Australia, shearing) The slowest shearer is the shearing shed; an inexpert or poor shearer.
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(Scotland) The proportion of sheep or cattle suitable for a given pasture.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A dairy, a vaccary.
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