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Meaning of 'bush' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Bush [ n.]
- A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
- A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
- A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
2 . Bush [ v. i.]
- To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
3 . Bush [ v. t.]
- To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
- To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.
- To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.

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