1619 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Αρχαιο-πλουτος i. ix. 29/2 I haue concluded with my selfe, not to omit one maner of ambushing, which was the most maruellous of al those that euer I read of.

1644 T. Case Gods Rising 15 Gods sleeping time, is nothing else but his enemies Ambushing-time.

1765 R. Rogers Jrnls. (1883) 80 My Lord How did us the honour to accompany us, being fond..to learn our method of marching, ambushing, retreating, etc.

1843 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Misc. 1 237 He delighted in superintending the hunting of the leopards and ambushing of the tigers.

1861 Arthur's Home Mag. Jan. 82/1 I must say these ambushings are not quite as indigenous to the other sex as to women.

1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 28 A man of plots, Craft, poisonous counsels, wayside ambushings.

1913 J. Fox Heart of Hills viii. 71 The feud score had been exactly evened by the ambushing of another of the tribe.

1977 J. D. Wirth Minas Gerais in Brazilian Federation iv. 135 Ambushings, assaults by hired thugs, burnouts, and dynamite bombings were facts of political life.

2005 Seanchas Ardmhacha 20 280 The ambushing of military lorries in crowded streets.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. vi. 53/1 By a strange Providence delivered from the Stratagems of the Ambushing Adversary.

1860 D. P. Thompson Doomed Chief xviii. 353 Expecting every moment to be saluted by the vollies of the ambushing foe.

1902 ‘O. Henry’ in Ainslee's Mag. Mar. 131/1 The engine bore down upon the ambushing desperadoes with..a shriek like some avenging monster.

1990 B. Burrough & J. Helyar Barbarians at Gate vi. 163 For years boards capitulated and signed merger agreements with the ‘ambushing’ management.

2012 Port Douglas & Mossman Gaz. (Austral.) (Nexis) 19 Apr. 5 We..deployed on four to six week operations searching for and engaging the enemy particularly using lots of ambushing tactics.