Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
ambushment .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An ambush.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
ambush .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Meliagrance laid in an embushment the best archers that he might get in his country, to the number of thirty, to await upon Sir
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And so by the advice of Sir Launcelot, they put them all in an embushment in
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And when the said knights came into the wood, anon they espied and saw the great embushment, and returned and told Sir Launcelot that there lay in await for them three score thousand Romans.
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And when the said knights came into the wood, anon they espied and saw the great embushment, and returned and told Sir Launcelot that there lay in await for them three score thousand Romans.
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And so by the advice of Sir Launcelot, they put them all in an embushment in a wood, as nigh Carlisle as they might, and there they abode still, to wit what the king would do.
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And by the way Sir Meliagrance laid in an embushment the best archers that he might get in his country, to the number of thirty, to await upon Sir Launcelot, charging them that if they saw such a manner of knight come by the way upon a white horse, that in any wise they slay his horse, but in no manner of wise have not ado with him bodily, for he is over-hardy to be overcome.
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