Obs. [a. F. boucher to shut an aperture; of doubtful derivation: see Littré.] To stop a hole, opening or passage.
a. 1659. Osborn, Observ. Turks (1673), 315. Eyeing Christians with a high disdain, for … bushing the way to Heaven with Purgatory and other Bugbears.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. ix. II. 279. If … all the holes in the world be not shut up, stopped, closed, and bushed.
