Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To work in the underbush, as in clearing.
- noun Same as
under-brush .
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Examples
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He did not bother to hang it on a tree, but flung it into the underbush.
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Up ahead I saw a bunch of cattle on a hillside full of rocky cliffs and cactus and underbush.
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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It'll be interesting to see if Obama can clear away the underbush and get to some real issues.
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Up ahead I saw a bunch of cattle on a hillside full of rocky cliffs and cactus and underbush.
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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Up ahead I saw a bunch of cattle on a hillside full of rocky cliffs and cactus and underbush.
Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010
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In strolling through the jungle, towards my camp, I detected the forms of two natives looking sharply about them, and, after bidding my young attendants to preserve perfect quiet, I crept on towards them, and, by the aid of a thick clump of underbush, managed to arrive within a few feet of the natives undetected.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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Presently I came to a place where it went out, but appeared again on the other side of a clump of underbush fairly distinctly.
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Letting the eyes follow along the course of the stream, they could catch the reflected light from its water, at some short distance within the forest, but soon lost all traces of it amid the bewilderment of tree-trunks and underbush, and here and there a huge rock covered over with gray lichens.
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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But he leaped across the plashy places, thrust himself through the clinging underbush, climbed the ascent, plunged into the hollow, and overcame, in short, all the difficulties of the track, with an unweariable activity that astonished him.
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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Charlie disappeared into the underbush, came out fairly promptly with a suit that seemed to consist mostly of vulcanized patches.
The Rolling Stones Heinlein, Robert A. 1952
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