"send bush" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sends bush",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sending bush",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sent bush",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sent bush",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "send<,,sent> bush"
      },
      "expansion": "send bush (third-person singular simple present sends bush, present participle sending bush, simple past and past participle sent bush)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 174",
          "text": "Being unable to bring him up to town because the river was in flood at the time, he had given him a good hiding and sent him bush.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1962, William Leonard Joy, The Birth of a Nation: The Story of Early Australia, Specially Commissioned by the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, NSW, Shakespeare Head Press, p. 136 https://books.google.ca/books?id=P4UrAAAAIAAJ&q=%22send+him+bush%22+OR+%22send+them+bush%22+OR+%22sent+him+bush%22+OR+%22sent+them+bush%22+-george+-president&dq=%22send+him+bush%22+OR+%22send+them+bush%22+OR+%22sent+him+bush%22+OR+%22sent+them+bush%22+-george+-president&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMvcm88PrMAhUMwGMKHee0BOYQ6AEILDAD\nFaced with famine, he armed the best shots among his convicts and sent them bush to hunt kangaroos and emus. He thus started a menace that plagued the colony for years, for, when supplies were adequate, the kangaroo hunters refused to resume their servitude in town."
        },
        {
          "text": "1992, Bryan Clark, Yammatji: Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne, Hesperian Press, p. 119 https://books.google.ca/books?id=C_UXAQAAMAAJ&q=%22sent+bush%22+-george+-president&dq=%22sent+bush%22+-george+-president&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk4IzP7_rMAhUBXGMKHVB5D6sQ6AEI0AMwVg\nThe mustering teams consisted of about twenty men. They were sent bush for up to six months, forbidden to return to the precincts of the homestead unless summoned."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Rosalind Kidd, chapter 6, in The Way We Civilise: Aboriginal Affairs, the Untold Story, St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press, page 168",
          "text": "But from Aurukun, where all the children were sent bush with their parents as a war precaution, MacKenzie feared that ready availability of cash would spell the end for traditional skills.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To send away into the bush (etymology 3)"
      ],
      "id": "en-send_bush-en-verb-2VCFgmwR",
      "links": [
        [
          "send",
          "send"
        ],
        [
          "bush",
          "bush"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, transitive) To send away into the bush (etymology 3)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-send bush.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/En-au-send_bush.ogg/En-au-send_bush.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/En-au-send_bush.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "send bush"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sends bush",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sending bush",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sent bush",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sent bush",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "send<,,sent> bush"
      },
      "expansion": "send bush (third-person singular simple present sends bush, present participle sending bush, simple past and past participle sent bush)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 174",
          "text": "Being unable to bring him up to town because the river was in flood at the time, he had given him a good hiding and sent him bush.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1962, William Leonard Joy, The Birth of a Nation: The Story of Early Australia, Specially Commissioned by the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, NSW, Shakespeare Head Press, p. 136 https://books.google.ca/books?id=P4UrAAAAIAAJ&q=%22send+him+bush%22+OR+%22send+them+bush%22+OR+%22sent+him+bush%22+OR+%22sent+them+bush%22+-george+-president&dq=%22send+him+bush%22+OR+%22send+them+bush%22+OR+%22sent+him+bush%22+OR+%22sent+them+bush%22+-george+-president&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMvcm88PrMAhUMwGMKHee0BOYQ6AEILDAD\nFaced with famine, he armed the best shots among his convicts and sent them bush to hunt kangaroos and emus. He thus started a menace that plagued the colony for years, for, when supplies were adequate, the kangaroo hunters refused to resume their servitude in town."
        },
        {
          "text": "1992, Bryan Clark, Yammatji: Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne, Hesperian Press, p. 119 https://books.google.ca/books?id=C_UXAQAAMAAJ&q=%22sent+bush%22+-george+-president&dq=%22sent+bush%22+-george+-president&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk4IzP7_rMAhUBXGMKHVB5D6sQ6AEI0AMwVg\nThe mustering teams consisted of about twenty men. They were sent bush for up to six months, forbidden to return to the precincts of the homestead unless summoned."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Rosalind Kidd, chapter 6, in The Way We Civilise: Aboriginal Affairs, the Untold Story, St Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press, page 168",
          "text": "But from Aurukun, where all the children were sent bush with their parents as a war precaution, MacKenzie feared that ready availability of cash would spell the end for traditional skills.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To send away into the bush (etymology 3)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "send",
          "send"
        ],
        [
          "bush",
          "bush"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, transitive) To send away into the bush (etymology 3)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-send bush.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/En-au-send_bush.ogg/En-au-send_bush.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/En-au-send_bush.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "send bush"
}