Bushwhacker vs Bushwalker - What's the difference?
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(US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
(Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
(US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the .
* 1962 , Albert E. Castel, William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times ,
* 1967 April, Donald Keith, The Time Machine Hunts a Treasure'', '' ,
* 2007 , Jeremy Neely, The Border Between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line ,
(dated) Someone who attacks without warning.
A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).
* 1977 September, Dave Hurteau, Air and Water'', '' ,
(Australia, New Zealand) A hiker or backpacker.
* 1997 , Peter Prineas, Henry Gold, Wild Places: Wilderness in Eastern New South Wales ,
* 2007 , Claire Smith, Heather Burke, Digging It Up Down Under: A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia ,
* 2008 , Chris Healy, Forgetting Aborigines ,
Bushwhacker is a see also of bushwalker.
As nouns the difference between bushwhacker and bushwalker
is that bushwhacker is (us) one who travels through the woods, off the designated path while bushwalker is (australia|new zealand) a hiker or backpacker.bushwhacker
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Noun
(en noun)page 155,
- The bushwhackers remained at General Cooper?s camp several days, then crossed the Red River into Texas.
page 51,
- She stared at us. “Hardly. You must be from far off, not to know about Quantrill?s raids. Last March the bushwhackers rode into Aubrey, shot every man in town, stole everything, burned down houses.”
page 109,
- Many bushwhackers' were young men born to families of southern heritage who were generally wealthier and more likely to own slaves than the typical Missouri farmer.His eldest daughter, Elisa, was an effective ' bushwhacker spy and informant.
page 90,
- We spent the rest of the day hopping from pond to pond with the bushwhackers , and we found them very suited for it.
See also
* bushbash (verb)bushwalker
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Noun
(en noun)page 66,
- In the following years the Kanangra country became the object of a mild form of cult worship as bushwalkers discovered its many delights.
page 98,
- There are numerous stories of bushwalkers spending several hours up a tree waiting for a wild pig to go away.
page 191,
- The anthropologist Lisa Palmer has written about an analagous but different situation in her study of non-indigenous bushwalkers' in Kakadu. She writes very eloquently about the conflicts that have emerged in Kakadu where the Bininj/Mungguy have attempted to limit ' bushwalker access to the stone country in particular.
