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Bushwhack   Listen
verb
bushwhack  v. i.  
1.
To live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla.
2.
To cut one's way through the woods or bush.





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"Bushwhack" Quotes from Famous Books



... carriage-roads, and threaded in all directions by paths and by-ways, along which soldiers, laborers, and truant schoolboys are passing at all hours of the day. It is so far escaping from the axe and the bushwhack as to have opened communication with the forest and mountain beyond by straggling lines of Cedar, Laurel, and Blackberry. The ground is mainly occupied with Cedar and Chestnut, with an undergrowth, in many places, of Heath and Bramble. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various


Words linked to "Bushwhack" :   make, lie in wait, wait, bushwhacker, work, scupper, waylay, lurk, live, ambush


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