The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bushfighter
Bushfighter \Bush"fight`er\, n.
One accustomed to bushfighting.
--Parkman.
Wiktionary
bushfighter
n. One who takes part in bushfighting.
Usage examples of "bushfighter".
Church of Long Island, a noted bushfighter, of gunpowder temper and form so stout that his men had always to hoist him over logs in their forest marches, went storming from New York to Boston with a plan to be revenged by raiding Acadia.
Under a chief of such a stamp, they were admirable bushfighters, and such were those now chosen to lead them.
George Washington was the officer in charge of a thousand bushfighters to guard this frontier.
Loudon, the English commander, did not arrive in New York till well on in midsummer of 1756, and he found far different material from the trained bushfighters in the hands of Montcalm.