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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bushwhacker \Bush"whack`er\, n.
1. One accustomed to beat about or travel through bushes.
[U.S.]
They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of
raccoons by moonlight. --W. Irving.
2. A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be
a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force
or its sympathizers. [U.S.] --Farrow.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bushwhacker
n 1: a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person [syn: {hillbilly}]
2: a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War
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