Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who fires from the shelter of bushes; a bushwhacker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One accustomed to bushfighting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who takes part in
bushfighting .
Etymologies
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bush + fighter
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Examples
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Colonel Ben {195} Church of Long Island, a noted bushfighter, of gunpowder temper and form so stout that his men had always to hoist him over logs in their forest marches, went storming from New York to Boston with a plan to be revenged by raiding Acadia.
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Lord Howe was there, dressed like a bushfighter; and with bagpipes setting the echoes ringing amid the lonely mountains, were the Highland regiments in their tartan plaids.
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Perière, an officer of colony regulars, had nominal command of the whole; and among the leaders of the Canadians was the famous bushfighter, Marin.
Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858
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