Bible Dictionaries
Bushwhacking

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bushwhacking'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/bushwhacking.html. 1828.