bushwhack

bushwhack (ˈbʊʃˌwæk)

—vb
1.	(US), (Canadian), (Austral) (tr) to ambush
2.	(US), (Canadian), (Austral) (intr) to cut or beat one's way through thick woods
3.	(US), (Canadian), (Austral) (intr) to range or move around in woods or the bush
4.	(US), (Canadian) (intr) to fight as a guerrilla in wild or uncivilized regions
5.	(NZ) (intr) to work in the bush, esp at timber felling

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Example sentences

Hikers are welcome to use any of the roadways open to the public or to

bushwhack the lands open to the public.

Soon we'll stop to bushwhack our way deeper into the forest to hunt for duiker,

a type of small antelope.

To view this end of the gorge, one needs to bushwhack a short distance off the

road.

Vegetation on this ridge regrows rapidly so hikers may have to bushwhack.

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Matching Quote

"The weapons with which we have gained our most important victories, which should be handed down as heirlooms from father to son, are not the sword and the lance, but the bushwhack, the turf-cutter, the spade, and the bog hoe, rusted with the blood of many a meadow, and begrimed with the dust of many a hard-fought field. The very winds blew the Indian's cornfield into the meadow, and pointed out the way which he had not the skill to follow. He had no better implement with which to intrench himself in the land than a clamshell. But the farmer is armed with plow and spade."

-Henry David Thoreau

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