Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ambush or ambuscade; any concealed body of soldiers or men.
- noun A thicket; a cluster of bushes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A thicket; a cluster of bushes.
- noun obsolete An ambuscade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
ambush . - noun obsolete The troops concealed in an ambush.
- noun obsolete A
surprise party ; a company of soldiers secretly deployed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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NOW turn we to the Emperor of Rome, which espied that these prisoners should be sent to Paris, and anon he sent to lie in a bushment certain knights and princes with sixty thousand men, for to rescue his knights and lords that were prisoners.
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How Sir Launcelot had word how the queen was taken, and how Sir Meliagrance laid a bushment for Launcelot
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And then he returned and came to his fellows in the bushment.
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Rome, and sent Sir Floris and Sir Floridas tofore, with five hundred men of arms, and they came to the city of Urbino and laid there a bushment, thereas them seemed most best for them, and rode tofore the town, where anon issued out much people and skirmished with the fore-riders.
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Gawaine and Sir Bors to do the message, and left in a bushment Sir
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How Lucius sent certain spies in a bushment for to have taken his knights being prisoners, and how they were letted.
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And therewith turned their horses and rode over waters and through woods till they came to their bushment, whereas
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And there was a recounter, for the bushment brake on the Romans, and slew and hew down the Romans, and forced the Romans to flee and return, whom the noble knights chased unto their tents.
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How Sir Launcelot had word how the queen was taken, and how Sir Meliagrance laid a bushment for
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How Lucius sent certain spies in a bushment for to have taken his knights being prisoners, and how they were letted.
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