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Bushwhacking   Listen
noun
Bushwhacking  n.  
1.
Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. (U.S.)
2.
The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers. (U.S.)





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"Bushwhacking" Quotes from Famous Books



... the larger questions of general army operations, than from the beginning to the end of the war a local district of bitter and relentless factional hatred and guerrilla or, as the term was constantly employed, "bushwhacking" warfare, intensified and kept alive by annual roving Confederate incursions from Arkansas and the Indian Territory in ...
— A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln - Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History • John G. Nicolay


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