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▪ I. bushwhacking, vbl. n. U.S.|ˈbʊʃˌhwækɪŋ|
1. Making one's way through bushes; esp. the pulling of a boat by means of the bushes along the margin of a stream.
1826T. Flint Recoll. Miss. Valley 86 A process, which, in the technics of the boatmen [of the Mississippi] is called bush-whacking. 1828― Hist. & Geog. Miss. Valley (Bartlett) The propelling power of the keel-boat is by oars, sails, setting-poles, the cordelle, and..bush-whacking, or pulling up by the bushes.
2. The making of the woods a basis of operations for fighting or deeds of violence; bush-fighting.
1864Daily Tel. 23 Aug. An unimportant bushwhacking foray. 1880Scribner's Monthly XXI. Dec. 301 Forbes underwent four months of bushwhacking with the Carlists.
3. Felling or clearing bush (with an axe). N.Z.
1906E. W. Elkington Adrift in N.Z. xvi. 262 Bush-felling, or, as it is termed, bush-whacking was a favourite pastime of mine. 1907W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 287 You new chums cuttin' good terbacker as if you was bush-wackin'. 1930W. Smyth Wooden Rails iii. 39 Don't you like saw-mills and bush whacking and all that?
▪ II. ˈbushˌwhacking, ppl. a.
That bushwhacks.
1883American VI. 92 The scouting, bushwhacking Unionist, Fortner. |