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bushwhacker

WordNet
  1. (n) bushwhacker
    a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War
  2. (n) bushwhacker
    a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Bushwhacker
    A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers.
  2. Bushwhacker
    One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes. "They were gallant bushwhackers , and hunters of raccoons by moonlight."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) bushwhacker
    One accustomed to sojourn in the woods, or beat about among bushes.
  2. (n) bushwhacker
    In the civil war in the United States, a member of the irregular troops on the Confederate side engaged in guerrilla warfare; a guerrilla: a term applied by the Federal forces.
  3. (n) bushwhacker
    A short heavy scythe for cutting bushes.
Usage in the news

A bushwhacking biologist unearths six-legged vampires, cannibals, and silk weavers in his quest to bring every ant on the planet into your home. discovermagazine.com

Bainbridge blotter Intoxicated bushwhacker . bainbridgereview.com

Rocheport prisoners vow to help drive out bushwhackers. columbiatribune.com

JEFFERSON CITY — Fifteen Rocheport residents arrested two weeks earlier pledged to return home and remain peaceful, except to drive out bushwhackers in the area led by Capt. columbiatribune.com

Bret Bolton (left) and Donny Hutchinson were the daring bushwhack paddlers who inspired this story. dallasobserver.com

From May's Mix Magazine: Bushwhacker Cider, the only all-cider taphouse in the U.S. Top five great cider words. blog.oregonlive.com

You begin to ponder the entanglement between identity and fawned-over fuzz, and digress: To what extent would these men be severing their sense of self if they bushwhacked their whiskers . inlander.com

Federal troops thwart bushwhackers at Keene home. columbiatribune.com

The Bushwhacker's Guide to Exploring Dallas. dallasobserver.com

I was bushwhacked the other day at the home center. courant.com

Usage in literature

A great deal of their war with us nowadays is mere bushwhacking. "The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Five" by Abraham Lincoln

They stopt an' hunted the whole country round for bushwhackers afore they'd move ary other step. "The Red Acorn" by John McElroy

In these border States there was a perpetual feud between these bushwhackers and the soldiers. "History of Kershaw's Brigade" by D. Augustus Dickert

All your friends that helped bushwhack me will itch to get that five hundred, Sebastian. "A Daughter of the Dons" by William MacLeod Raine

No doubt they thought that there was a party of our bushwhackers upon them. "With Lee in Virginia" by G. A. Henty

I heard bout the bushwhackers and Ku Klux. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves" by Work Projects Administration

The party sent in pursuit of the bushwhacker has returned. "The Citizen-Soldier" by John Beatty

There was a lot of bushwhacking all through that country by little groups of men who was just out to get all they could. "Slave Narratives, Oklahoma" by Various

It was almost certain that the bushwhacker had been during dinner probably in the cellar under our feet. "Memoirs" by Charles Godfrey Leland

We're the only two of our kind up among these bushwhackers. "Joan of Arc of the North Woods" by Holman Day