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Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.

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  1. n. Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream.
  2. n. The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers.
  3. adj. lying in ambush
  4. 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.] T. Flint. 2. The crimes or warfare of bushwhackers. [U.S.]
  5. v wait in hiding to attack v live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla v cut one's way through the woods or bush s lying in ambush