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Definition of Ambusher
1. Noun. An attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack.
Definition of Ambusher
1. n. One lying in ambush.
Definition of Ambusher
1. Noun. One who ambushes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ambusher
1. one that ambushes [n -S] - See also: ambushes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambusher
Literary usage of Ambusher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1871)
"Slander as an offensive weapon, and hypocrisy as a covert, were apt of old to
damage the gunner and the ambusher more than the enemy. ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1871)
"Slander as an offensive weapon, and hypocrisy as a covert, were apt of old to
damage the gunner and the ambusher more than the enemy. ..."
3. Highways and Byways in Derbyshire by John Benjamin Firth (1905)
"... to Burghley in 1577, "no town of resorte" in the neighbourhood "where any
ambusher might lye." Mary was first taken to Chatsworth in 1570, ..."
4. Fond Adventures: Tales of the Youth of the World by Maurice Henry Hewlett (1905)
"To dance attendance upon an Italianate cut-throat, an ambusher, a blood-pudding
man, with husband and babes cry- ..."
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