What is "ambushes"

Usage examples of "ambushes".

Descriptions ranged from a pale-blue multitentacled squid-thing that waited in the snow for travelers the way an antlion ambushes its prey, to a ghoul with a legion of skeletal zombies at its beck and call.

Clearly they did, the main use being to set ambushes for fog-brained warriors riding hell-bent through the night.

Serpent, Pathfinder, has his tricks and ambushes in war as well as another.

High ground and tracks are where every Tom, Dick, and Harry move and where ambushes are laid.