Talk:hush

Strictly Speaking ....... Using water flow to dislodge material. Sometimes ore but, more often to remove overburden and expose a vein. A dam is built and then the water is released to rush downhill and scour a channel which had been prepared on the line of the vein. The preparation normally took many months. Old hushes can be recognised in Wales, the English Pennines and, no doubt, in many other parts of the world... mikeL 30-09-09.

Possible adjective
Chambers 1908 has an adjective: "silent, quiet". Hmmm? Equinox ◑ 04:10, 13 January 2019 (UTC)