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bush-made

bush-made adjective: constructed or produced in an outback region using locally available materials, and typically rough or makeshift.

Adjective

bush-made (not comparable)

  1. (Australia) Constructed or produced in an outback region using locally available materials, and typically rough or makeshift.
    • I glanced around at the iron and bark walls decorated with spears and ochred totem-sticks, at the bare floor of hard earth, at the hurricane lamp dimly glowing upon rough, bush-made furniture.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 207

Questions about bush-made

What does bush-made mean?
Bush-made means constructed or produced in an outback region using locally available materials, and typically rough or makeshift.
What part of speech is bush-made?
Bush-made is an adjective.

Words near bush-made in the dictionary

  1. bush-hen
  2. bush-hens
  3. bush-Kanaka
  4. bush-Kanakas
  5. bush-league
  6. bush-made
  7. bush-metal
  8. bush-shrike
  9. bush-shrikes
  10. bush-telegraph
  11. bush-telegraphs

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