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Definition of Bushwhack
1. Verb. Wait in hiding to attack.
Generic synonyms: Wait
Derivative terms: Ambuscade, Ambush, Ambusher, Bushwhacker, Lurker
2. Verb. Live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla.
3. Verb. Cut one's way through the woods or bush.
Definition of Bushwhack
1. Verb. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress ¹
2. Verb. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country ¹
3. Verb. to ambush ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bushwhack
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bushwhack
Literary usage of Bushwhack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Laurel Brigade: Originally the Ashby Cavalry of the Army of by William Naylor McDonald, Bushrod Corbin Washington (1907)
"... destroys railroad bridge—Cranberry Summit—Mountaineers unfriendly and bushwhack
our column—Capture of Morgantown—Bridgeport and Fairmont—Destruction of ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Bushwhack. To prowl among bushes ; hence, to pursue a guerilla warfare ; to talk
all round a subject. 1813 These bush-whacking Yankees won't do For me to be ..."
3. The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West by Baynard Rush Hall (1843)
"Sometimes the affair assumes the form of the question implied, as thus :— "
Neighbour Bushwhack, livin down the lower end of Sugar Holler, would like to ..."
4. The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons, Places by Mrs Stella S (Flood) Coatsworth, Stella S. Coatsworth (1866)
"... they had not even the courage to bushwhack us3. and when a rebel carit bushwhack
he is badly demoralized, and the women were frightened out of their ..."
5. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"It was as follows: — "How long have you known Bill Bushwhack? " " Ever since he
war born. ... So Bill Bushwhack passed muster. — NY Spirit of the Timet. ..."
6. Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture During the 2d Session of the by Committee on agriculture, United States, Congress, House (1910)
"Yet the gentleman from Minnesota knows that we "bushwhack" in the House in
discussion, under the five minute rule. Mr. TAWNEY. ..."
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